Takahiko Iimura
Born: 1937-02-20 in Tokyo, Japan
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
2023
- Time Tunnel: Takahiko Iimura at Kino Arsenal, 18. April 1973 ... (Director)
2008
- A Rock In The Light ... (Director)
2004
- Ma: The Stones Haved Moved ... (Director)
2003
- I am (Not) Seen ... (Director)
2002
1997
- Birth of a Nation as Self
1996
- Sky and Ground ... (Director)
1995
- As I See You You See Me ... (Director)
- This Is a Camera Which Shoots This ... (Director)
1991
- Fluxus Replayed ... (Director)
- Concept Tapes 1 ... (Director)
- Concept Tapes 2 ... (Director)
- Concept tape 3 (Performance) ... (Director)
1990
- To The Garden of Water Lilies ... (Director)
1989
- The Making of MA in Ryoan-ji ... (Director)
- MA: Space/Time in the Garden of Ryoan-ji ... (Director)
- New York Day and Night: A Journey through Light and Darkness ... (Director)
- Monet Garden Synthesized ... (Director)
- Scared to Death ... (Director)
1987
- Double Portrait ... (Director)
- I Love You ... (Director)
1985
- Home Movies 1971-81
- John Cage Performs James Joyce ... (Director)
- Air's Rock ... (Director)
- Moments At The Rock ... (Director)
1984
- New York Hot Springs ... (Director)
- Shadowman (The Structure of Seeing and Hearing) ... (Director)
1981
- Circle & Square ... (Director)
- Talking in New York ... (Director)
- I Am A Viewer You Are A Viewer ... (Director)
- Talking Picture (The Structure of Film Viewing) ... (Director)
1978
- Sync Sound ... (Director)
- Four Shadows
1977
- MA (Intervals) ... (Director)
- One Frame Duration ... (Director)
- Visual Logic (and Illogic) ... (Director)
1976
- Camera, Monitor, Frame ... (Director)
- Observer / Observed / Observer ... (Writer)
1975
- Observer / Observed ... (Director)
- 24 Frames per Second ... (Director)
1973
- Plus and Minus ... (Director)
- 1 To 60 Seconds ... (Director)
1972
- Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here ... (Producer)
- Models: B-4: Seeing, Not Seeing ... (Director)
- Timed 1, 2, 3 ... (Director)
- Models: A-2: Timing 1, 2, 3, 4 ... (Director)
- Models: B-2: A Line 1, 2, 3 ... (Director)
- Models: A-1: 2 Min. 46 Sec. 16 Frames ... (Director)
- Models: A-3: Time Length 1,2,3,4 ... (Director)
- Models: B-1: Counting, 100 Or X's ... (Director)
- Models: B-3: To See the Frame, Not to See the Frame ... (Director)
1971
- Time Tunnel ... (Director)
- Shutter ... (Director)
- The Pacific Ocean ... (Director)
- Man and Woman ... (Director)
1970
- Buddha Again ... (Director)
- A Chair ... (Director)
- Blinking ... (Director)
- Kiri (The Fog) ... (Director)
- In The River ... (Director)
- Film Strips II ... (Director)
- Film Strips I ... (Director)
1969
- Filmmakers as Himself
- Flowers ... (Director)
- Face ... (Director)
1967
- Shelter 9999 ... (Director)
- White Calligraphy ... (Director)
- Japanese Erotica: Five Films on Love and Sex from the Japanese Underground of the Experimental Cinema ... (Director)
- New York Scenes ... (Director)
1966
- Honey Moon ... (Director)
- I Saw the Shadow ... (Director)
- Iro (Colors) ... (Director)
- Why Don't You Sneeze ... (Director)
- Taka and Ako ... (Director)
1965
- Rose Color Dance ... (Director)
1964
- Dead Movie ... (Director)
- My Documentary ... (Director)
- A Dance Party in the Kingdom of Lilliput ... (Director)
- Inside & Outside ... (Director)
1963
- The Masseurs ... (Director)
- Desade ... (Director)
- Onan ... (Director)
- Sakasama (Upside Down) ... (Director)
1962
- Love ... (Director)
- Junk ... (Director)
- Dada 62 ... (Director)
- On Eye Rape ... (Director)
- 6x6 (Oukan Densentsu) ... (Director)