Takahiko Iimura Movies

'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...

A precedent to Iimura's video work where he becomes his own subject, I Saw the Shadow sees Iimura follow his own shadow in and out of vision as he...

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

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

‘New York Scenes’ (1967) is sketches of certain scenes and portraits in New York including, ‘Linda with a lens’, ‘Fire...

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

"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...

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....

Short film featuring Takahiko and Akiko Iimura

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...

A journey through light and darkness reflected on the city of New York.

"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...

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,...

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...

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

Cameras observing each other.

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...

A portmanteau of two films about Uluru (then known as Ayres Rock). "A huge isolated rock in the midst of desert in Australia: Ayers Rock. I produced...

Short film for the "A Commercial for Myself" programme.