Takahiko Iimura Movies

Takahiko Iimura's Models Series

Takahiko Iimura's Models Series

In "I Am A Viewer, You Are A Viewer" the performer plays the double role of the performer and the audience simultaneously, talking to his own shadow....

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

A kind of first person cinema where the filmmaker is the cameraman as well as the actor. Acting like a total stranger in the city who does not speak...

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...

Takahiko Iimura's Models Series

Film by Takahiko Iimura

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

"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...

Short work.

Demonstrates the visual logic (and illogic) of sign combining with limited movements of camera for panning and zooming.

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...

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

In “A Rock In The Light”, I requested the music of Haruyuki Suzuki, a contemporary composer. This music is unified with the image, which...

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

"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...

When I came to the USA in the mid 1960s, it was the high point of the Hippie movement and the black riots. I lived in the East village in New York,...

Short film featuring Takahiko and Akiko Iimura

‘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...