Takahiko Iimura Filmes

"10 minutes of the act of creation itself run through close up and magnifying lenses. " -T.I.

“ONAN is a work about desire (masturbation) which has no object but itself. The appearance of the large egg objectifies the man's desires....

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...

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...

Originally filmed in 8mm a little stone-made Buddha in a temple of Katmandu, the film strip in ten seconds was projected as a loop, and then the...

Video began as a medium that inspired discovery. This art documentary traces the expressive roots of “media art” in Japan — works...

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...

UKIYO UKARE present details from the shunga, pornographic wood-block prints of Harunobu, Utamaro, and others

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...

Film installation by Japanese experimental filmmaker Takahiko Iimura.

Camera, Monitor, Frame is the first installment of Takahiko Iimura's "Video Semiotics Triptych" (the other two works are Observer/Observed, made in...

An attempt at time travel in a very conceptual sense.

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

White Calligraphy is an abstract short made by scratching characters from 'Kojiki', an early Japanese text, into the frames of 16mm black leader.

"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...

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...

Cameras observing each other.

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

Sky and ground which was cut off momentarily / A camera wanders seeking its own shadow / The images which explore the limit / of solitude in New York...

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...