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Takahiko Iimura

b. 1937 — d. 2022 (aged 85) Tokyo - Japan

Actor Director Writer

Takahiko Iimura has been a pioneer artist of Japanese experimental film and video, working with film since l960 and with video since 1970 while residing in New York and Tokyo. He is a widely established international artist, having numerous solo exhibitions in major museums such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Whitney Museum, New York, Anthology Film Archives, New York, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, the National Gallery Jeu de Paume, Paris, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Reina Sofia National Museum, Madrid, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo in addition to an artist residency at the German Academy of Arts, Berlin, and Bellagio Rockefeller Foundation Study Center, Bellagio, Italy.

Known For

Onan

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

Filmography

Time Tunnel: Takahiko Iimura at Kino Arsenal, 18. April 1973

Filmperformance mit Takahiko Iimura am Goethe-Institut Tokyo

2018 Actor Director

Circle & Square, 1966-2018

2018 Director Writer

Takahiko Iimura: Movies & Performance at the Eye Film Institute

White Calligraphy, Re-Read

2014 Self Director Writer

Circle & Square

2011 Director Writer

Gin namari gahô-kai

2011 Self Director

How to Make Time Visible in Film (Without Photography)

Takahiko Iimura Citywide Retrospective

One Second Loop (=Infinity): A White Line in Black

2007 Director Writer

Circle & Square 2003

2003 Director Writer

Observer Observed

Observer Observed

1998 Self Director

As I See You You See Me

As I See You You See Me

Meta Media: Takahiko Iimura Media Installation

This Is a Camera Which Shoots This

This Is a Camera Which Shoots This

Film as a Line - Multiple Versions

A.I.U.E.O.NN Six Features

1993 Self Director Cinematographer

Fluxus Replayed

1991 Director Cinematographer

Ma: Space/Time in the Garden of Ryoan-Ji

Ma: Space/Time in the Garden of Ryoan-Ji

I Love You

1987 Actor Director Writer

Double Portrait, 1973-1987

Double Portrait, 1973-1987

Moments at the Rock

1985 Director Writer

A Rock in the Light

1985 Director Writer

John Cage Performs James Joyce

Shadowman (The Structure of Seeing and Hearing)

Circle & Square

1981 Director Writer

I Am a Viewer, You Are a Viewer

I Am a Viewer, You Are a Viewer

Talking Picture (The Structure of Film Viewing)

Repeated/Reversed Time

Talking in New York (After Jacques Derrida)

1980 Director Writer

Double Identities

1979 Actor Director Writer

Topological Space

24 Frames per Second

24 Frames per Second

1978 Director Cinematographer

One Frame Duration

One Frame Duration

1977 Director Cinematographer

Camera, Monitor, Frame

Dubbing Session

Observer/Observed/Observer

1976 Actor Director Writer

One Second and Infinity

Observer/Observed

1975 Actor Director Writer

Film Installation at Galerie 23, Paris

1 to 60 Seconds

Minute and Second

Timed 1, 2, 3

1972 Director Cinematographer

Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here

Timing 1, 2, 3, 4

1972 Director Writer

Projection Piece, or Dead Movie Re-Titled

1972 Director Writer

Seeing and Not Seeing

1972 Director Writer

To See the Frame and Not to See the Frame

1972 Director Writer

A Line (Parts 1, 2, 3)

1972 Director Writer

Counting: 1 to 100 or Xs

1972 Director Writer

1972 Director Writer

Time Length 1, 2, 3, 4

1972 Director Writer

2 Min. 46 Sec. 16 Frames (100 Feet)

1972 Director Writer

A Loop Seen As a Line

1972 Director Writer

Blinking

Shutter

The Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean

1971 Director Writer Cinematographer

The Fog

1970 Director Writer Cinematographer

In the River, 1969-1970

Buddha, Again (a.K.a. Cosmic Buddha)

Film Strips II, 1966-1970

Film Strips I, 1966-1970

Filmmakers

1969 Self Director Cinematographer

Flowers, 1968-1969

1969 Director Writer Cinematographer

Face

1968 Director Cinematographer

1968 Director Writer

1968 Director Writer

Summer Happenings U.S.A.

White Calligraphy

1967 Director Cinematographer

1967 Director Writer Cinematographer

New York Scene 3

New York Scene 4

New York Scene 2

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

Rose Color Dance

Rose Color Dance

I Saw the Shadow

I Saw the Shadow

1966 Director Writer Cinematographer

1966 Actor Director Writer Cinematographer

1966 Actor Director Writer Cinematographer

A Dance Party in the Kingdom of Lilliput, No. 2

Dead Movie

A Dance Party in the Kingdom of Lilliput, No. 1

1964 Director Cinematographer

Film Independents

Onan

1963 Director Writer Cinematographer

Why Not Sneeze?

Dada '62 Performed

1963 Director Writer

Inside & Outside

1963 Director Writer

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