Movies

“Double Portrait” and “I Love You” are a paired piece with Akiko Iimura. Both Iimuras play individually as well as a unit. In...

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

Consisting of four parts: Between the Frames; Seeing Nothing; The Privilege to See; I Am A Viewer / You Are A Viewer. The film demonstrates and...

"The original film was rescued from a Tokyo trash bin. It is an American sexual education film in which plant and animal sex are explained. I,...

A boy and a girl in a small room, having a fight, making love and suddenly . . . a black humor on a young couple.—Takahiko Iimura, Paper Film:...

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

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...

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

Cameras once again observing each other.

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...

Demonstrates the visual logic (and illogic) of sign combining with limited movements of camera for panning and zooming.

Takahiko Iimura's Models Series

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...

Takahiko Iimura's Models Series

"Shot on 8mm on a mountain in Japan, the abrasive winds that drift the fog in Iimura's Kiri are so fierce we almost believe it to have grazed the...

The films concerns the "duration" (or non-duration) of one frame, as the title indicates, the minimum unit of film in space (dark and light) with...

Film by Takahiko Iimura

Models, Reel 2 (B-1~4) consists of four works and is dealt with, different from Reel 1, symbol/words, and the logic in film. First "Counting 1 to 100...

‘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...

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...