Takahiko IIMURA


Nationality: Japanese

Takahiko Iimura is a pioneering Japanese maker of experimental film and video art, who, over the last fifty years has achieved an international reputation. Iimura began making experimental films in the early sixties, the golden period for underground art, and was associated with such avant-garde artists as Yoko Ono; painters, Genpei Akasegawa and Natsuyuki Nakanishi; and ankoku buto dancer Tatsumi Hijikata. He is also known for helping to organize the historically important Japan Film Independent, the first experimental film festival in Japan. His film and video work has shown at prestigious venues world wide including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Anthology Film Archives, and Centre Georges Pompidou.He has also produced more than 25 self published DVDs as a creative media, not just as a packaging media, available from Re:Voir, Paris and Lux in London. He also published a collection of his criticism in a book form in the mid-eighties. His work has shifted from the early sixties of poetic and imagistic experimental films to the seventies/eighties of minimal/structural film and conceptual video. Since them he worked more in performance and installation as well, besides single screen presentation.

37 MOVIES IN DISTRIBUTION

MA: A JAPANESE CONCEPT
1977-2004 / Betacam SP / color-b&w / sound and silent / single screen / 46' 00 / 67 € or 89 €
distribution: Mini DV
I AM (NOT) SEEN
2003 / color / sound / single screen / 5' 00 / 23 €
distribution: Digital file on server
SEEING / HEARING / SPEAKING
2002 / DVD / b&w / sound / single screen / 33' 00 / 57 €
distribution: Digital file on server
TALKING IN NEW YORK - (After Jacques Derrida)
1981-2001 / b&w / sound / single screen / 8' 00 / 58 €
distribution: 16mm or Digital file on server
CINE DANCE : THE BUTOH OF TATSUMI HIJIKATA - ANMA (THE MASSEURS) + ROSE COLOR DANCE
1963-2001 / Betacam SP / b&w / silent / single screen / 20' 00 / 35 €
distribution: Digital file on server
MA (INTERVALS)
1995-1998 / 16mm / b&w / sound / single screen / 12' 00 / 45 €
distribution: 16mm
  OBSERVER/OBSERVED - (and other works of video semiology)
1972-1998 / b&w / sound / single screen / 22' 00 / 74 €
distribution: Digital file on server
  PERFORMANCE / MYSELF
1972-1995 / color-b&w / sound / single screen / 29' 00 / 79 €
distribution: Digital file on server
PERFORMANCE: AIUEONN SIX FEATURES
1994 / color / sound / single screen / 8' 00 / 27 €
distribution: Digital file on server
  AIUEONN SIX FEATURES
1993 / Betacam SP / color / sound / single screen / 7' 00 / 42 €
distribution: 16mm or Digital file on server
FLUXUS REPLAYED
1991 / Betacam SP / b&w / sound / single screen / 30' 00 / 35 €
distribution: Digital file on server
MA: SPACE/TIME IN THE GARDEN OF RYOAN-JI
1989 / 16mm / color / sound / single screen / 16' 00 / 57 €
distribution: 16mm or Digital file on server
JOHN CAGE PERFORMS JAMES JOYCE
1985 / color / sound / single screen / 15' 00 / 50 €
distribution: Digital file on server
TALKING PICTURE - - The structure of film viewing
1981 / Super 8mm / color / sound / single screen / 15' 00 / 51 €
distribution: 16mm
REPEATED/REVERSED TIME
1980 / 16mm / b&w / sound / single screen / 12' 00 / 45 €
distribution: 16mm
24 FRAMES PER SECOND
1975-1978 / 16mm / b&w / sound / single screen / 12' 00 / 45 €
distribution: 16mm or Digital file on server
ONE FRAME DURATION
1977 / Betacam SP / color-b&w / sound / single screen / 11' 00 / 45 €
distribution: Digital file on server
EARLY CONCEPTUAL VIDEOS
1970-1977 / Mini DV / b&w / sound / single screen / 23' 00 / 57 €
distribution: Digital file on server
COUNTING. 1 TO 100 OR XS (FROM MODELS. REEL 2)
1972 / 16mm / b&w / silent / single screen / 12' 00 / 45 €
distribution: 16mm
TIMED 1,2,3
1972 / 16mm / b&w / sound / single screen / 8' 00 / 27 €
distribution: 16mm
THE PACIFIC OCEAN
1971 / 8mm / color / silent / single screen / 11' 00 / 44 €
distribution: 16mm
KIRI - The Fog
1970 / 8mm / b&w / silent / single screen / 5' 00 / 26 €
distribution: 16mm
FACE
1969 / 16mm / color / sound / single screen / 17' 00 / 67 €
distribution: 16mm
FLOWERS
1968-1969 / 16mm / color / sound / single screen / 11' 00 / 44 €
distribution: 16mm
FILMMAKERS
1966-1969 / 16mm / color / sound / single screen / 28' 00 / 93 €
distribution: 16mm or Digital file on server
WHITE CALLIGRAPHY
1967 / b&w / silent / single screen / 11' 00 / 44 €
distribution: 16mm
TAKA AND AKO
1966 / 8mm / b&w / silent / single screen / 13' 00 / 45 €
distribution: 16mm
A DANCE PARTY IN THE KINGDOM OF LILLIPUT
1964 / 16mm / b&w / sound / single screen / 14' 00 / 47 €
distribution: 16mm
ONAN
1964 / b&w / sound / single screen / 7' 00 / 36 €
distribution: 16mm
ROSE COLOR DANCE
1964 / 8mm / b&w / silent / single screen / 13' 00 / 45 €
distribution: 16mm
  60S EXPERIMENTS
1962-1964 / 8mm / b&w / sound / single screen / 44' 00 / 89 €
distribution: Digital file on server
ANMA (THE MASSEURS)
1963 / 8mm / b&w / silent / single screen / 10' 00 / 45 €
distribution: 16mm
AI(LOVE)
1962-1963 / 8mm / b&w / sound / single screen / 10' 00 / 44 €
distribution: 16mm
DADA 62
1962 / 8mm / b&w / silent / single screen / 10' 00 / 45 €
distribution: 16mm
DE SADE
1962 / 8mm / b&w / sound / single screen / 10' 00 / 45 €
distribution: 16mm
KUZU - JUNK
1962 / 8mm / b&w / sound / single screen / 10' 00 / 45 €
distribution: 16mm
ON EYE RAPE
1962 / 16mm / color / silent / single screen / 10' 00 / 45 €
distribution: 16mm