Takahiko Iimura Movies
- 1967
Japanese Erotica: Five Films on Love and Sex from the Japanese Underground of the Experimental Cinema
Japanese Erotica: Five Films on Love and Sex from the Japanese Underground of the Experimental Cinema01967HD
A program of five films on love and sex from the Japanese underground of the experimental cinema, assembled by avant-garde cineaste Takahiko Iimura,...
- 1997
Birth of a Nation
Birth of a Nation6.31997HD
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
- 1972
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here61972HD
"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...
- 1985
Home Movies 1971-81
Home Movies 1971-8101985HD
Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
- 1978
Four Shadows
Four Shadows71978HD
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...
- 1976
Observer / Observed / Observer
Observer / Observed / Observer01976HD
Cameras once again observing each other.
- 1970
Ukiyo Ukare
Ukiyo Ukare01970HD
UKIYO UKARE present details from the shunga, pornographic wood-block prints of Harunobu, Utamaro, and others
- 1989
MA: Space/Time in the Garden of Ryoan-ji
MA: Space/Time in the Garden of Ryoan-ji01989HD
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"...
- 1963
Onan
Onan101963HD
“ONAN is a work about desire (masturbation) which has no object but itself. The appearance of the large egg objectifies the man's desires....
- 1965
Rose Color Dance
Rose Color Dance01965HD
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...
- 1969
Flowers
Flowers01969HD
While I was staying in New York in the 1960s during the rise of the hippie movement, I filmed performances of body painting by the artist, Kusama...
- 1995
This Is a Camera Which Shoots This
This Is a Camera Which Shoots This01995HD
"This Is a Camera Which Shoots This" and "As I See You You See Me" are both set up facing two cameras and monitors and the performer walks between...
- 1987
Double Portrait
Double Portrait01987HD
"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...
- 1963
Sakasama (Upside Down)
Sakasama (Upside Down)01963HD
Filmed turning the camera upside down, and without looking through the viewfinder, this experimental short features fragmented scenes of people, a...
- 1963
Desade
Desade01963HD
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,...
- 1977
Visual Logic (and Illogic)
Visual Logic (and Illogic)01977HD
Demonstrates the visual logic (and illogic) of sign combining with limited movements of camera for panning and zooming.
- 1963
The Masseurs
The Masseurs01963HD
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...
- 1973
1 To 60 Seconds
1 To 60 Seconds01973HD
"In 1 to 60 Seconds Iimura does an extraordinary thing: he abstracts time from any concrete associations, seems to put it on the screen and there you...
- 2011
Associations of Silverpencils
Associations of Silverpencils02011HD
This is a film about a medium approaching extinction, an 8mm documentary film about a vanishing 8mm cinema. Blending two genres, the science film and...
- 1971
Man and Woman
Man and Woman01971HD
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...