Takahiko Iimura Movies

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

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

"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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

Experimental film involving letters.

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...

Video began as a medium that inspired discovery. This art documentary traces the expressive roots of “media art” in Japan — works...

A mind-twisting video, meditating on the experience of watching film/video, and of seeing and being seen. Prodded by a succession of riddles, the...

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 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...

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

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,...

“Moments At The Rock,” shot with an amateur video camera, was made as a free style improvisational film. The camera got strange halations...

UKIYO UKARE present details from the shunga, pornographic wood-block prints of Harunobu, Utamaro, and others

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,...