Takahiko Iimura Movies

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...

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

8mm short by Kenji Onishi and Tohru Mabuchi.

Short film for the "A Commercial for Myself" programme.

An image synthesized version of Mardi Gras festival in New Orleans, in which many colorized images flow slowly left to right as the parade of the...

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...

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...

"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...

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

Cameras observing each other.

"These two reels (A-1~4, B-1~4) of MODELS I think are unusually important works. You are certainly one of the filmmakers to so explicitly direct your...

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...

First projected onto Jiro Takamatsu's naked back at the legendary Sogetsu Art Center for the performance Screen Play, Colors is an experiment in...

Camera, Monitor, Frame is the first installment of Takahiko Iimura's "Video Semiotics Triptych" (the other two works are Observer/Observed, made in...

‘New York Scenes’ (1967) is sketches of certain scenes and portraits in New York including, ‘Linda with a lens’, ‘Fire...

A super-real comedy with Sho Kazakura. The film is divided in to a number of very short scenes or chapters, each with a title "A,B,C" at random. we...

Short film for the "A Commercial for Myself" programme.

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

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