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.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 20, 1937
Deathday: N/A
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Known For
Un Ange Passe
2002-01-22
Un Ange Passe
Overview: Experimental short by Keiji Aiuchi.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-01-22
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Film Workshop In SANGENJAYA - Summer
2012-06-07
Film Workshop In SANGENJAYA - Summer
Overview: 8mm short by Kenji Onishi and Tohru Mabuchi.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-06-07
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Home Movies 1971-81
1985-01-01
Home Movies 1971-81
Overview: Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Associations of Silverpencils
2011-01-01
Associations of Silverpencils
Overview: 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 the personal film, and benefiting from the participation of multiple generations of cineastes, it is a reflection upon the original cinematic experience.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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Birth of a Nation
1997-08-06
Birth of a Nation
Overview: Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-06
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Filmmakers
1969-01-01
Filmmakers
Overview: Iimura creates a short self-portrait as well as brief portraits of five of his peers: Brakhage, Vanderbeek, Smith, Mekas and Warhol. In each portrait, Iimura attempts to copy the styles and traits of each artist (Vanderbeek's constantly moving camera; Mekas' experiments with film speed; Warhol's use of flashes of white against a black background), while briefly commenting on the images being shown. The film serves effectively as an introduction to the film styles of these artists.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Four Shadows
1978-10-03
Four Shadows
Overview: 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 sections. This established affinities between each of the image sections to the others, and the sound sections to each other. The image sections are: surveyors measuring the land near my house as seen through an old window, a family of Siamang Gibbon apes in the Washington zoo, an industrial site, and a page turned from a book on Cézanne’s composition showing a diagram of his painting Mardi Gras, filmed against bright leaves. The sound sections are: a dramatic scene from Debussy’s opera “Pelléas et Mélisande”, a passage from William Wordworth’s autobiographical poem “The Prelude,” sounds from rowing on a lake at night, and the sounds of the apes vocalizing.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-03
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A I U E O NN Six Features
1993-01-01
A I U E O NN Six Features
Overview: Experimental film involving letters.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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