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)
- Scared to Death ... (Director)
- New York Day and Night: A Journey through Light and Darkness ... (Director)
- Monet Garden Synthesized ... (Director)
1987
- Double Portrait ... (Director)
- I Love You ... (Director)
1985
- Home Movies 1971-81
- Moments At The Rock ... (Director)
- John Cage Performs James Joyce ... (Director)
- Air's Rock ... (Director)
1984
- Shadowman (The Structure of Seeing and Hearing) ... (Director)
- New York Hot Springs ... (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)
- Visual Logic (and Illogic) ... (Director)
- One Frame Duration ... (Director)
1976
- Camera, Monitor, Frame ... (Director)
- Observer / Observed / Observer ... (Writer)
1975
- Observer / Observed ... (Writer)
- 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)
- Models: A-1: 2 Min. 46 Sec. 16 Frames ... (Director)
- Models: B-3: To See the Frame, Not to See the Frame ... (Director)
- Models: B-2: A Line 1, 2, 3 ... (Director)
- Models: A-2: Timing 1, 2, 3, 4 ... (Director)
- Timed 1, 2, 3 ... (Director)
- Models: B-1: Counting, 100 Or X's ... (Director)
- Models: A-3: Time Length 1,2,3,4 ... (Director)
1971
- Shutter ... (Director)
- Time Tunnel ... (Director)
- Man and Woman ... (Director)
- The Pacific Ocean ... (Director)
1970
- Blinking ... (Director)
- Buddha Again ... (Director)
- A Chair ... (Director)
- Kiri (The Fog) ... (Director)
- Film Strips II ... (Director)
- In The River ... (Director)
- Film Strips I ... (Director)
1969
- Filmmakers as Himself
- Flowers ... (Director)
- Face ... (Director)
1967
- White Calligraphy ... (Director)
- Shelter 9999 ... (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)
- Iro (Colors) ... (Director)
- Why Don't You Sneeze ... (Director)
- Taka and Ako ... (Director)
- I Saw the Shadow ... (Director)
1965
- Rose Color Dance ... (Director)
1964
- Dead Movie ... (Director)
- A Dance Party in the Kingdom of Lilliput ... (Director)
- My Documentary ... (Director)
- Inside & Outside ... (Director)
1963
- Desade ... (Director)
- Onan ... (Director)
- The Masseurs ... (Director)
- Sakasama (Upside Down) ... (Director)
1962
- On Eye Rape ... (Director)
- Love ... (Director)
- Dada 62 ... (Director)
- Junk ... (Director)
- 6x6 (Oukan Densentsu) ... (Director)