Takahiko Iimura Movies

An attempt at time travel in a very conceptual sense.

"Shot on 8mm on a mountain in Japan, the abrasive winds that drift the fog in Iimura's Kiri are so fierce we almost believe it to have grazed the...

Film installation by Japanese experimental filmmaker Takahiko Iimura.

An animation film in which the outline of the image of a stone garden was traced on computer. As the result while the camera-crews moved in...

A voice performance by John Cage who "reads", "vocalizes" and "whispers" in three different manners his artificial language taken from "Finnegens...

8mm short by Kenji Onishi and Tohru Mabuchi.

Takahiko Iimura's Models Series

Takahiko Iimura's Models Series

Models, Reel 2 (B-1~4) consists of four works and is dealt with, different from Reel 1, symbol/words, and the logic in film. First "Counting 1 to 100...

"These two reels (A-1~4, B-1~4) of MODELS I think are unusually important works. You are certainly one of the filmmakers to so explicitly direct your...

Takahiko Iimura's Models Series

By using simple systems of counting and measuring in film, Iimura has drawn attention to the complexities of our time perception – memory,...

"The Making..." showed not only the process of film-making, but also the creation of "MA" as a work.

'What I am concerned with in this film is not only the flicker effect, but also the coming and going of an eye-like shape on screen which was created...

"Double Portrait" and "I Love You" are a paired piece with Akiko Iimura. Both Iimuras play individually as well as a unit. In "Double Portrait" they...

"The original film was rescued from a Tokyo trash bin. It is an American sexual education film in which plant and animal sex are explained. I,...

"10 minutes of the act of creation itself run through close up and magnifying lenses. " -T.I.

One of Takahiko Iimura's (and modern art's) earliest works in conceptual video, A Chair entirely consists of a steady (and usually ghosted) image of...

The early sixteenth-century Japanese garden in the Zen temple of Ryoan-ji, in Kyoto, is considered a masterpiece of the karesansui or "dry landscape"...

‘New York Hot Springs’ (1984) is scenes of steam coming out of many streets of New York, a typical scene in winter, in repeated cycles of...