Takahiko Iimura Movies

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

A program of five films on love and sex from the Japanese underground of the experimental cinema, assembled by avant-garde cineaste Takahiko Iimura,...

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

A journey through light and darkness reflected on the city of New York.

Consisting of four parts: Between the Frames; Seeing Nothing; The Privilege to See; I Am A Viewer / You Are A Viewer. The film demonstrates and...

“ONAN is a work about desire (masturbation) which has no object but itself. The appearance of the large egg objectifies the man's desires....

A document of Tatsumi Hijikata's Butoh dance with Kazuo Ohno as the guest dancer shot in Hijikata's early period when he was emerging as the...

"On John's 31st birthday, Yoko held an art exhibit, "This Is Not Here", at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, N.Y.. The show was taped and aired...

labeled in the CCJ as "Why Not Sneeze?", this film has been described as blatantly inspired by Marcel Duchamp’s ANEMIC CINEMA.

In the context of the Cold War, use of the word “shelter” was common. However, it surprised Iimura when he started to live in New York in...

Four four-minute image sections and four four-minute sound sections are linked in all combinations of the sound sections with each of the image...

Anma (The Masseurs) is a representative and historical work by the creator of Butoh dance, Tatsumi Hijikata in his early period in the 1960s. The...

Iimura creates a short self-portrait as well as brief portraits of five of his peers: Brakhage, Vanderbeek, Smith, Mekas and Warhol. In each...

Iimura analyzed some footage he had made in Katmandu of a man taking a bath in a sacred river. A meditational experience is, thus, presented in a...

MAN AND WOMAN shows full body shots of a naked man and woman shot from above without movement. They are shown alone as well as together, one over (or...

From the collector of Marquis de Sade in the early 1960s, still a 'dark age ' of erotic picture, even his novels were forbidden to publish in Tokyo,...

Visually, each section of the film is composed of 10-second spans of clear and dark leader, arranged in a progressive fashion so that at first there...

Originally filmed in 8mm a little stone-made Buddha in a temple of Katmandu, the film strip in ten seconds was projected as a loop, and then the...

The three faces (two women and one tranvestized man) in the series of close up, which are shot separately in their sexual process of the acting and...

This film, and in particular the function of sound within it will vary freely from moment to moment, viewer to viewer.