Takahiko Iimura Movie Trailers
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Face Trailer (1969)
10 April 1969
The three faces (two women and one tranvestized man) in the series of close up, which are shot separately in their sexual process of the acting and the real, are intercut and edited making into a film.
Four Shadows Trailer (1978)
03 October 1978
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 sections.
Home Movies 1971-81 Trailer (1985)
01 January 1985
Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
Filmmakers Trailer (1969)
01 January 1969
Iimura creates a short self-portrait as well as brief portraits of five of his peers: Brakhage, Vanderbeek, Smith, Mekas and Warhol.
Camera, Monitor, Frame Trailer (1976)
27 March 1976
Camera, Monitor, Frame is the first installment of Takahiko Iimura's "Video Semiotics Triptych" (the other two works are Observer/Observed, made in 1975, and Observer/Observed/Observer, made in 1976).
Flowers Trailer (1969)
01 January 1969
While I was staying in New York in the 1960s during the rise of the hippie movement, I filmed performances of body painting by the artist, Kusama Yayoi, together with the performers.
Sakasama (Upside Down) Trailer (1963)
13 August 1963
Filmed turning the camera upside down, and without looking through the viewfinder, this experimental short features fragmented scenes of people, a girl, an amusement park, the beach, etc.
Sky and Ground Trailer (1996)
01 January 1996
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 / A mythological verbal space in which / snakes and birds are intermingled / A unique world where these images / and words meet.
Shelter 9999 Trailer (1967)
07 December 1967
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 the 1960s.
Time Tunnel: Takahiko Iimura at Kino Arsenal, 18. April 1973 Trailer (2023)
15 February 2023
In 1973 the Kino Arsenal – then in its Welserstraße location in Berlin-Schöneberg – showed a programme of videos by the Japanese artist Takahiko Iimura.
Blinking Trailer (1970)
01 January 1970
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 positive over the negative, open and close rapidly.
John Cage Performs James Joyce Trailer (1985)
01 January 1985
A voice performance by John Cage who "reads", "vocalizes" and "whispers" in three different manners his artificial language taken from "Finnegens Wake" by James Joyce.
I am (Not) Seen Trailer (2003)
06 June 2003
This video deals with the perception of seeing including the words as I see you, I am seen, and I am not seen.
Talking in New York Trailer (1981)
01 January 1981
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 or hear the language, he walks with a camera to such sight-seeing spots as Times Square,and the top of the Empire State building, etc.
One Frame Duration Trailer (1977)
01 January 1977
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 sound (or silent) and their various combinations.
White Calligraphy Trailer (1967)
01 January 1967
White Calligraphy is an abstract short made by scratching characters from 'Kojiki', an early Japanese text, into the frames of 16mm black leader.
This Is a Camera Which Shoots This Trailer (1995)
01 January 1995
"This Is a Camera Which Shoots This" and "As I See You You See Me" are both set up facing two cameras and monitors and the performer walks between them while voicing the sentence of the title.
My Documentary Trailer (1964)
16 December 1964
Short film for the "A Commercial for Myself" programme.
MA (Intervals) Trailer (1977)
01 January 1977
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 clear film, which is totally transparent, were used as the basic materials.
1 To 60 Seconds Trailer (1973)
01 January 1973
"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 sit looking at (or for) it, experiencing it.
Why Don't You Sneeze Trailer (1966)
07 December 1966
labeled in the CCJ as "Why Not Sneeze?", this film has been described as blatantly inspired by Marcel Duchamp’s ANEMIC CINEMA.
New York Hot Springs Trailer (1984)
01 January 1984
‘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 short shots.
Timed 1, 2, 3 Trailer (1972)
09 December 1972
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 is more and more light and less darkness, then vice versa.
Film Workshop In SANGENJAYA - Summer Trailer (2012)
07 June 2012
8mm short by Kenji Onishi and Tohru Mabuchi.
I Love You Trailer (1987)
01 January 1987
“Double Portrait” and “I Love You” are a paired piece with Akiko Iimura. Both Iimuras play individually as well as a unit.
New York Day and Night: A Journey through Light and Darkness Trailer (1989)
01 January 1989
A journey through light and darkness reflected on the city of New York.
Film Strips II Trailer (1970)
01 January 1970
When I came to the USA in the mid 1960s, it was the high point of the Hippie movement and the black riots.
Observer / Observed / Observer Trailer (1976)
01 January 1976
Cameras once again observing each other.
Inside & Outside Trailer (1964)
16 December 1964
Short film for the "A Commercial for Myself" programme.
Visual Logic (and Illogic) Trailer (1977)
01 January 1977
Demonstrates the visual logic (and illogic) of sign combining with limited movements of camera for panning and zooming.
Ma: The Stones Haved Moved Trailer (2004)
24 September 2004
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 film-making, the stone, the drawn line moved in animation.
Plus and Minus Trailer (1973)
01 January 1973
"Of the new foreign work I saw, (at the Avantgarde Film Festival in London) that of Taka Iimura interested me most – His film + & -, using scratched signs, displayed how perception can be molded by the concept.
I Am A Viewer You Are A Viewer Trailer (1981)
01 January 1981
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.
Buddha Again Trailer (1970)
01 January 1970
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 screen w as refilmed many times in 16mm at different speeds (frames per second).
Scared to Death Trailer (1989)
01 January 1989
An image synthesized version of Mardi Gras festival in New Orleans, in which many colorized images flow slowly left to right as the parade of the floats goes by in front of the camera with the decorated messages.
24 Frames per Second Trailer (1975)
09 December 1975
This film, and in particular the function of sound within it will vary freely from moment to moment, viewer to viewer.
Japanese Erotica: Five Films on Love and Sex from the Japanese Underground of the Experimental Cinema Trailer (1967)
19 January 1967
A program of five films on love and sex from the Japanese underground of the experimental cinema, assembled by avant-garde cineaste Takahiko Iimura, and shown at the American Cinematheque from January 19 to 25, 1967.
Double Portrait Trailer (1987)
01 January 1987
"Double Portrait" and "I Love You" are a paired piece with Akiko Iimura. Both Iimuras play individually as well as a unit.
Talking Picture (The Structure of Film Viewing) Trailer (1981)
07 December 1981
Consisting of four parts: Between the Frames; Seeing Nothing; The Privilege to See; I Am A Viewer / You Are A Viewer.
Film Strips I Trailer (1970)
01 January 1970
When I came to the USA in the mid 1960s, it was the high point of the Hippie movement and the black riots.
A Chair Trailer (1970)
01 January 1970
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 a chair to the accompaniment of the firecracker pops of television static.
The Making of MA in Ryoan-ji Trailer (1989)
01 January 1989
"The Making..." showed not only the process of film-making, but also the creation of "MA" as a work.
As I See You You See Me Trailer (1995)
01 January 1995
"This Is A Camera Which Shoots This" and "As I See You You See Me" are both set up facing two cameras and monitors and the performer walks between them while voicing the sentence of the title.
The Masseurs Trailer (1963)
31 December 1963
Anma (The Masseurs) is a representative and historical work by the creator of Butoh dance, Tatsumi Hijikata in his early period in the 1960s.
Kiri (The Fog) Trailer (1970)
01 January 1970
"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 filmstrip.
Birth of a Nation Trailer (1997)
06 August 1997
Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996.
Models: A-1: 2 Min. 46 Sec. 16 Frames Trailer (1972)
01 January 1972
By using simple systems of counting and measuring in film, Iimura has drawn attention to the complexities of our time perception – memory, rhythm, phase – and the interaction between coucious conception of time, and the physical perception of its passing.
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here Trailer (1972)
11 May 1972
On John's 31st birthday, Yoko held an art exhibit, "This Is Not Here", at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, N.
Models: B-3: To See the Frame, Not to See the Frame Trailer (1972)
01 January 1972
Takahiko Iimura's Models Series
Shutter Trailer (1971)
01 January 1971
'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 by a fade-in-out device while shooting the light/the bulb of the projector.
Circle & Square Trailer (1981)
01 January 1981
The 1981 performance Circle & Square by Takahiko Iimura, New York-based Japanese film and video pioneer, evolved from the artist's interest in exposing the apparatus of projection and the materiality of image and light, which began in the mid-60s.
Shadowman (The Structure of Seeing and Hearing) Trailer (1984)
26 November 1984
A mind-twisting video, meditating on the experience of watching film/video, and of seeing and being seen.
Love Trailer (1962)
01 January 1962
"10 minutes of the act of creation itself run through close up and magnifying lenses. " -T.I.