Takahiko Iimura Movies

A kind of first person cinema where the filmmaker is the cameraman as well as the actor. Acting like a total stranger in the city who does not speak...

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...

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

Short work.

The 1981 performance Circle & Square by Takahiko Iimura, New York-based Japanese film and video pioneer, evolved from the artist's interest in...

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

"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...

One of the earliest minimalist video with flicker effects was produced in Tokyo in early 1970s. A flickering video with eyes, which super-impose the...

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

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...

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 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...

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

This is a film about a medium approaching extinction, an 8mm documentary film about a vanishing 8mm cinema. Blending two genres, the science film and...

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

Short film featuring Takahiko and Akiko Iimura

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

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