Visual Logic (and Illogic)1977

Avant-garde film pioneer Takahiko Iimura filmed an early performance of butoh by one of its originators, Tatsumi Hijikata.

One of Takahiko Iimura's earliest works in conceptual video entirely consists of a steady (and usually ghosted) image of a chair to the accompaniment of the firecracker pops of television static.

Takahiko Iimura paints five-minute impressionistic portraits of his fellow filmmakers, followed by a shorter self-portrait.

An attempt at time travel in a very conceptual sense.

Full body shots of a naked man and woman shot from above without movement.

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.