Takahiko Iimura Movies

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

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"...

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

"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...

'What I am concerned with in this film is not only the flicker effect, but also the coming and going of an eye-like shape on screen which was created...

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...

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

A touching portrait of his partner Akiko and the days following their wedding, Iimura's conceptual rigour loosens in favour of intimacy in Honey...

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

8mm short by Kenji Onishi and Tohru Mabuchi.

Cameras once again observing each other.

Film installation by Japanese experimental filmmaker Takahiko Iimura.

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

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...

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...

In the general classification, this was a complete abstract film and a kind of experimental movie as well, only black film, which blocks light, and...

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...

One of Takahiko Iimura's (and modern art's) earliest works in conceptual video, A Chair entirely consists of a steady (and usually ghosted) image of...

This video deals with the perception of seeing including the words as I see you, I am seen, and I am not seen. These words are superimposed over the...

"In 1 to 60 Seconds Iimura does an extraordinary thing: he abstracts time from any concrete associations, seems to put it on the screen and there you...