Takahiko Iimura

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.

Directed

1. Love (1962) — Director
2. A Dance Party in the Kingdom of Lilliput (1964) — Director
3. Onan (1963) — Director
4. On Eye Rape (1962) — Director
5. Rose Color Dance (1965) — Director
6. Observer / Observed (1975) — Director
7. MA: Space/Time in the Garden of Ryoan-ji (1989) — Director
8. Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here (1972) — Director
9. Dead Movie (1964) — Director
10. 1 To 60 Seconds (1973) — Director
11. 6x6 (Oukan Densentsu) (1962) — Director
12. Sakasama (Upside Down) (1963) — Director
13. Ukiyo Ukare — Director
14. Associations of Silverpencils (2011) — Director
15. Desade (1963) — Director
16. Models: B-4: Seeing, Not Seeing (1972) — Director
17. Plus and Minus (1973) — Director
18. Camera, Monitor, Frame (1976) — Director
19. White Calligraphy (1967) — Director
20. Junk (1962) — Director
21. John Cage Performs James Joyce (1985) — Director
22. Talking in New York (1981) — Director
23. Why Don't You Sneeze (1966) — Director
24. Shelter 9999 (1967) — Director
25. Talking Picture (The Structure of Film Viewing) (1981) — Director
26. Air's Rock (1985) — Director
27. Japanese Erotica: Five Films on Love and Sex from the Japanese Underground of the Experimental Cinema (1967) — Director
28. Observer / Observed / Observer (1976) — Director
29. A I U E O NN Six Features (1993) — Director
30. I am (Not) Seen (2003) — Director
31. Shutter (1971) — Director
32. The Masseurs (1963) — Director
33. Man and Woman (1971) — Director
34. Time Tunnel: Takahiko Iimura at Kino Arsenal, 18. April 1973 (2023) — Director
35. New York Day and Night: A Journey through Light and Darkness (1989) — Director
36. A Chair (1970) — Director
37. Blinking (1970) — Director
38. Visual Logic (and Illogic) (1977) — Director
39. Time Tunnel (1971) — Director
40. Timed 1, 2, 3 (1972) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Birth of a Nation (1997) — Self
2. Four Shadows (1978)
3. Un Ange Passe (2002)
4. Film Workshop In SANGENJAYA - Summer (2012)
5. Home Movies 1971-81 (1985)
6. Associations of Silverpencils (2011)
7. Filmmakers (1969) — Himself
8. A I U E O NN Six Features (1993)
9. KIKAIDE MIRUKOTO = Eye Machine / To See by Chance –The Pioneers of Japanese Video Arts– (2013)