Takahiko Iimura
Director
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A Chair
One of Takahiko Iimura's (and modern art's) earliest works in conceptual video, A CHAIR entirely consists of a steady (and usually ghosted) image of a chair to the accompaniment of the firecracker pops of television static. While formally minimal, A CHAIR is conceptually challenging in its...Watch Movie
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Anma
ANMA, defined in the film as "the art of releasing of the mind and body," is avant-garde film pioneer Takahiko Iimura's film of an early performance of butoh by one of its originators, Tatsumi Hijikata. In the spirit of butoh's inherent formal mutability, Iimura did not simply film the...Watch Movie
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Blinking
One of the earliest minimalist video with flicker effects was produced in Tokyo in early 1970s. A flickering video with eyes, which super-impose the positive over the negative, open and close rapidly. At the same time the "blind" effects of video fast-forwarding accelerates/decelerates the...Watch Movie
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Filmmakers
Takahiko Iimura paints five-minute impressionistic portraits of his fellow filmmakers, followed by a shorter self-portrait. Each vignette was shot without looking through the viewfinder and was edited in-camera. Additionally, the shorts portraying each of the filmmakers (Stan Brakhage, Stan...Watch Movie
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Rose Color Dance
A document of Tatsumi Hijikata's Butoh dance with Kazuo Ohno as the guest dancer shot in Hijikata's early period when he was emerging as the originator of Butoh. All of the male dancers are dressed up with evening suits and move gracefully, yet an intruder breaks up the whole...Watch Movie
