Takahiko Iimura Filmes

  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

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    Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

    Birth of a Nation
  • 1985
    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

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    Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

    Home Movies 1971-81
  • 1972
    Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here

    Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here

    Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here

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    "On John's 31st birthday, Yoko held an art exhibit, "This Is Not Here", at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, N.Y.. The show was taped and aired...

    Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
  • 1967
    Japanese Erotica: Five Films on Love and Sex from the Japanese Underground of the Experimental Cinema

    Japanese Erotica: Five Films on Love and Sex from the Japanese Underground of the Experimental Cinema

    Japanese Erotica: Five Films on Love and Sex from the Japanese Underground of the Experimental Cinema

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    A program of five films on love and sex from the Japanese underground of the experimental cinema, assembled by avant-garde cineaste Takahiko Iimura,...

    Japanese Erotica: Five Films on Love and Sex from the Japanese Underground of the Experimental Cinema
  • 1978
    Four Shadows

    Four Shadows

    Four Shadows

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    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...

    Four Shadows
  • 1985
    John Cage Performs James Joyce

    John Cage Performs James Joyce

    John Cage Performs James Joyce

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

    John Cage Performs James Joyce
  • 1962
    Love

    Love

    Love

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

    Love
  • 1963
    The Masseurs

    The Masseurs

    The Masseurs

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    Anma (The Masseurs) is a representative and historical work by the creator of Butoh dance, Tatsumi Hijikata in his early period in the 1960s. The...

    The Masseurs
  • 1963
    Onan

    Onan

    Onan

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

    Onan
  • 1966
    Why Don't You Sneeze

    Why Don't You Sneeze

    Why Don't You Sneeze

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    labeled in the CCJ as "Why Not Sneeze?", this film has been described as blatantly inspired by Marcel Duchamp’s ANEMIC CINEMA.

    Why Don't You Sneeze
  • 1970
    Kiri (The Fog)

    Kiri (The Fog)

    Kiri (The Fog)

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    "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...

    Kiri (The Fog)
  • 1963
    Sakasama (Upside Down)

    Sakasama (Upside Down)

    Sakasama (Upside Down)

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    Filmed turning the camera upside down, and without looking through the viewfinder, this experimental short features fragmented scenes of people, a...

    Sakasama (Upside Down)
  • 1962
    6x6 (Oukan Densentsu)

    6x6 (Oukan Densentsu)

    6x6 (Oukan Densentsu)

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    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:...

    6x6 (Oukan Densentsu)
  • 1971
    Man and Woman

    Man and Woman

    Man and Woman

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    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...

    Man and Woman
  • 1969
    Face

    Face

    Face

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    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...

    Face
  • 2011
    Associations of Silverpencils

    Associations of Silverpencils

    Associations of Silverpencils

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    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...

    Associations of Silverpencils
  • 1989
    MA: Space/Time in the Garden of Ryoan-ji

    MA: Space/Time in the Garden of Ryoan-ji

    MA: Space/Time in the Garden of Ryoan-ji

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    The early sixteenth-century Japanese garden in the Zen temple of Ryoan-ji, in Kyoto, is considered a masterpiece of the karesansui or "dry landscape"...

    MA: Space/Time in the Garden of Ryoan-ji
  • 1989
    The Making of MA in Ryoan-ji

    The Making of MA in Ryoan-ji

    The Making of MA in Ryoan-ji

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    "The Making..." showed not only the process of film-making, but also the creation of "MA" as a work.

    The Making of MA in Ryoan-ji
  • 1971
    Time Tunnel

    Time Tunnel

    Time Tunnel

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    An attempt at time travel in a very conceptual sense.

    Time Tunnel
  • 1987
    Double Portrait

    Double Portrait

    Double Portrait

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    "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...

    Double Portrait