Takahiko Iimura Movies

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...

In "I Am A Viewer, You Are A Viewer" the performer plays the double role of the performer and the audience simultaneously, talking to his own shadow....

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

From the collector of Marquis de Sade in the early 1960s, still a 'dark age ' of erotic picture, even his novels were forbidden to publish in Tokyo,...

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

Experimental film involving letters.

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

Short film featuring Takahiko and Akiko Iimura

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...

By using simple systems of counting and measuring in film, Iimura has drawn attention to the complexities of our time perception – memory,...

‘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...

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

"It's a mixture of [dead] animals, pieces of [broken] furniture, industrial waste, kids playing. I didn't have in mind any of the kind of historical...

Takahiko Iimura's Models Series

"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 compilation tape of performances including John Cage Performs James Joyce, Arakawa, and Iimura's first AIUEONN and As I See You You See Me shot...

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 the context of the Cold War, use of the word “shelter” was common. However, it surprised Iimura when he started to live in New York in...

When I came to the USA in the mid 1960s, it was the high point of the Hippie movement and the black riots. I lived in the East village in New York,...