Takahiko Iimura
Biography
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.
Acting (9 movies)
Un Ange Passe
2002
Film Workshop In SANGENJAYA - Summer
2012
Home Movies 1971-81
1985
Associations of Silverpencils
2011
Birth of a Nation
1997
Filmmakers
1969
Four Shadows
1978
A I U E O NN Six Features
1993
KIKAIDE MIRUKOTO = Eye Machine / To See by Chance –The Pioneers of Japanese Video Arts–
2013
Directing (84 movies)
1 To 60 Seconds
1973
6x6 (Oukan Densentsu)
1962
Sakasama (Upside Down)
1963
Associations of Silverpencils
2011
Desade
1963
Plus and Minus
1973
Models: B-4: Seeing, Not Seeing
1972
Camera, Monitor, Frame
1976
Love
1962
White Calligraphy
1967
Junk
1962
On Eye Rape
1962
A Dance Party in the Kingdom of Lilliput
1964
John Cage Performs James Joyce
1985
Rose Color Dance
1965
Talking in New York
1981
Onan
1963
Talking Picture (The Structure of Film Viewing)
1981
Why Don't You Sneeze
1966
Shelter 9999
1967
Air's Rock
1985
Japanese Erotica: Five Films on Love and Sex from the Japanese Underground of the Experimental Cinema
1967
Observer / Observed
1975
MA: Space/Time in the Garden of Ryoan-ji
1989
A I U E O NN Six Features
1993
Observer / Observed / Observer
1976
I am (Not) Seen
2003
Shutter
1971
The Masseurs
1963
Man and Woman
1971
Time Tunnel: Takahiko Iimura at Kino Arsenal, 18. April 1973
2023
New York Day and Night: A Journey through Light and Darkness
1989
A Chair
1970
Blinking
1970
Visual Logic (and Illogic)
1977
Time Tunnel
1971
Timed 1, 2, 3
1972
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
1972
Filmmakers
1969
Face
1969
The Making of MA in Ryoan-ji
1989
MA (Intervals)
1977
Ma: The Stones Haved Moved
2004
I Love You
1987
Double Portrait
1987
24 Frames per Second
1975
One Frame Duration
1977
Film Strips II
1970
Dada 62
1962
I Am A Viewer You Are A Viewer
1981
Flowers
1969
Film Strips I
1970
As I See You You See Me
1995
This Is a Camera Which Shoots This
1995
Kiri (The Fog)
1970
Honey Moon
1966
I Saw the Shadow
1966
In The River
1970
The Pacific Ocean
1971
Iro (Colors)
1962
Inside & Outside
1964
My Documentary
1964
Taka and Ako
1966
Buddha Again
1970
New York Scenes
1967
New York Hot Springs
1984
Concept tape 3 (Performance)
1991
Sky and Ground
1996
Concept Tapes 1
1991
Concept Tapes 2
1991
Fluxus Replayed
1991
Scared to Death
1989
Dead Movie
1964
Circle & Square
1981
Models: A-1: 2 Min. 46 Sec. 16 Frames
1972
Models: A-2: Timing 1, 2, 3, 4
1972
Models: A-3: Time Length 1,2,3,4
1972
Models: B-1: Counting, 100 Or X's
1972
Models: B-2: A Line 1, 2, 3
1972
Models: B-3: To See the Frame, Not to See the Frame
1972
Moments At The Rock
1985
A Rock In The Light
2008
Shadowman (The Structure of Seeing and Hearing)
1984
Sync Sound
1978
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Onan | 1963 | Producer |
| The Masseurs | 1963 | Writer |
| Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here | 1972 | Producer |
| Observer / Observed | 1975 | Writer |
| Observer / Observed / Observer | 1976 | Writer |
| MA: Space/Time in the Garden of Ryoan-ji | 1989 | Writer |
| A I U E O NN Six Features | 1993 | Writer |