Takahiko Iimura Movies

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

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

"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...

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...

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 installation by Japanese experimental filmmaker Takahiko Iimura.

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

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

"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...

Consisting of four parts: Between the Frames; Seeing Nothing; The Privilege to See; I Am A Viewer / You Are A Viewer. The film demonstrates and...

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...

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

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

A mind-twisting video, meditating on the experience of watching film/video, and of seeing and being seen. Prodded by a succession of riddles, the...

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...

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

A document of Tatsumi Hijikata's Butoh dance with Kazuo Ohno as the guest dancer shot in Hijikata's early period when he was emerging as the...

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

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