Takahiko Iimura Movies

  • 1970
    Film Strips II

    Film Strips II

    Film Strips II

    01970HD

    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,...

    Film Strips II
  • 1971
    The Pacific Ocean

    The Pacific Ocean

    The Pacific Ocean

    01971HD

    Shot on 8mm on the 12-day boat journey between Yokohama and San Francisco, Iimura's The Pacific Ocean consumes the anticipation and uncertainties of...

    The Pacific Ocean
  • 1989
    Monet Garden Synthesized

    Monet Garden Synthesized

    Monet Garden Synthesized

    01989HD

    Film by Takahiko Iimura

    Monet Garden Synthesized
  • 1996
    Sky and Ground

    Sky and Ground

    Sky and Ground

    01996HD

    Sky and ground which was cut off momentarily / A camera wanders seeking its own shadow / The images which explore the limit / of solitude in New York...

    Sky and Ground
  • 2004
    Ma: The Stones Haved Moved

    Ma: The Stones Haved Moved

    Ma: The Stones Haved Moved

    02004HD

    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...

    Ma: The Stones Haved Moved
  • 1973
    Plus and Minus

    Plus and Minus

    Plus and Minus

    01973HD

    "Of the new foreign work I saw, (at the Avantgarde Film Festival in London) that of Taka Iimura interested me most – His film + & -, using...

    Plus and Minus
  • 1972
    Models: B-1: Counting, 100 Or X's

    Models: B-1: Counting, 100 Or X's

    Models: B-1: Counting, 100 Or X's

    01972HD

    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...

    Models: B-1: Counting, 100 Or X's
  • 1967
    Summer, Happenings, U.S.A.

    Summer, Happenings, U.S.A.

    Summer, Happenings, U.S.A.

    01967HD

    I lived in the East village of New York in the mid sixties, a high time of the hippie movement. I had been involved myself in the environment of the...

    Summer, Happenings, U.S.A.
  • 1962
    6x6 (Oukan Densentsu)

    6x6 (Oukan Densentsu)

    6x6 (Oukan Densentsu)

    01962HD

    A boy and a girl in a small room, having a fight, making love and suddenly . . . a black humor on a young couple.—Takahiko Iimura, Paper Film:...

    6x6 (Oukan Densentsu)
  • 1991
    Concept Tapes 1

    Concept Tapes 1

    Concept Tapes 1

    01991HD

    Concept Tapes 1
  • 1976
    Observer / Observed / Observer

    Observer / Observed / Observer

    Observer / Observed / Observer

    01976HD

    Cameras once again observing each other.

    Observer / Observed / Observer
  • 1977
    One Frame Duration

    One Frame Duration

    One Frame Duration

    01977HD

    The films concerns the "duration" (or non-duration) of one frame, as the title indicates, the minimum unit of film in space (dark and light) with...

    One Frame Duration
  • 1991
    Concept Tapes 2

    Concept Tapes 2

    Concept Tapes 2

    01991HD

    Concept Tapes 2
  • 1969
    Face

    Face

    Face

    01969HD

    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...

    Face
  • 1963
    Screen Play

    Screen Play

    Screen Play

    01963HD

    In his 1963 expanded-cinema performance 'Screen Play', filmmaker Takahiko Iimura is projecting his film Iro (1962), a.k.a. Colors - a study of...

    Screen Play