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