Takahiko Iimura Movies

The 1981 performance Circle & Square by Takahiko Iimura, New York-based Japanese film and video pioneer, evolved from the artist's interest in...

Takahiko Iimura's Models Series

In 1973 the Kino Arsenal – then in its Welserstraße location in Berlin-Schöneberg – showed a programme of videos by the...

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...

Cameras once again observing each other.

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

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

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"...

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...

A precedent to Iimura's video work where he becomes his own subject, I Saw the Shadow sees Iimura follow his own shadow in and out of vision as he...

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

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...

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...

Short work.

Cameras observing each other.

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

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

Iimura analyzed some footage he had made in Katmandu of a man taking a bath in a sacred river. A meditational experience is, thus, presented in a...

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

An attempt at time travel in a very conceptual sense.