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
- Concept Tapes 2 ... (Director)
- Fluxus Replayed ... (Director)
- Concept tape 3 (Performance) ... (Director)
- Concept Tapes 1 ... (Director)
1990
- To The Garden of Water Lilies ... (Director)
1989
- Monet Garden Synthesized ... (Director)
- New York Day and Night: A Journey through Light and Darkness ... (Director)
- MA: Space/Time in the Garden of Ryoan-ji ... (Director)
- The Making of MA in Ryoan-ji ... (Director)
- Scared to Death ... (Director)
1987
- Double Portrait ... (Director)
- I Love You ... (Director)
1985
- Home Movies 1971-81
- Moments At The Rock ... (Director)
- Air's Rock ... (Director)
- John Cage Performs James Joyce ... (Director)
1984
- Shadowman (The Structure of Seeing and Hearing) ... (Director)
- New York Hot Springs ... (Director)
1981
- Circle & Square ... (Director)
- I Am A Viewer You Are A Viewer ... (Director)
- Talking Picture (The Structure of Film Viewing) ... (Director)
- Talking in New York ... (Director)
1978
- Four Shadows
- Sync Sound ... (Director)
1977
- MA (Intervals) ... (Director)
- Visual Logic (and Illogic) ... (Director)
- One Frame Duration ... (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: A-1: 2 Min. 46 Sec. 16 Frames ... (Director)
- Timed 1, 2, 3 ... (Director)
- Models: B-1: Counting, 100 Or X's ... (Director)
- Models: B-3: To See the Frame, Not to See the Frame ... (Director)
- Models: A-2: Timing 1, 2, 3, 4 ... (Director)
- Models: B-4: Seeing, Not Seeing ... (Director)
- Models: A-3: Time Length 1,2,3,4 ... (Director)
- Models: B-2: A Line 1, 2, 3 ... (Director)
1971
- Shutter ... (Director)
- The Pacific Ocean ... (Director)
- Time Tunnel ... (Director)
- Man and Woman ... (Director)
1970
- A Chair ... (Director)
- Buddha Again ... (Director)
- Blinking ... (Director)
- Film Strips II ... (Director)
- In The River ... (Director)
- Film Strips I ... (Director)
- Kiri (The Fog) ... (Director)
1969
- Filmmakers as Himself
- Flowers ... (Director)
- Face ... (Director)
1967
- Japanese Erotica: Five Films on Love and Sex from the Japanese Underground of the Experimental Cinema ... (Director)
- Shelter 9999 ... (Director)
- White Calligraphy ... (Director)
- New York Scenes ... (Director)
1966
- Honey Moon ... (Director)
- Iro (Colors) ... (Director)
- I Saw the Shadow ... (Director)
- Taka and Ako ... (Director)
- Why Don't You Sneeze ... (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
- Desade ... (Director)
- The Masseurs ... (Director)
- Onan ... (Director)
- Sakasama (Upside Down) ... (Director)
1962
- Love ... (Director)
- Junk ... (Director)
- On Eye Rape ... (Director)
- Dada 62 ... (Director)
- 6x6 (Oukan Densentsu) ... (Director)