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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1937-02-20 (88 years old)

Place of Birth

Tokyo, Japan

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.

Known For

Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here

Love

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Moments At The Rock

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Film Strips II

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Face

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A Chair

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Timed 1, 2, 3

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Ma: The Stones Haved Moved

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The Masseurs

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Rose Color Dance

Acting

2013

KIKAIDE MIRUKOTO = Eye Machine / To See by Chance –The Pioneers of Japanese Video Arts–

2012

Film Workshop In SANGENJAYA - Summer

2011

Associations of Silverpencils

2002

1997

Birth of a Nation as Self

1993

A I U E O NN Six Features

1985

Home Movies 1971-81

1978

1969

Filmmakers as Himself

Directing

2023

Time Tunnel: Takahiko Iimura at Kino Arsenal, 18. April 1973 as Director

2011

Associations of Silverpencils as Director

2008

A Rock In The Light as Director

2004

Ma: The Stones Haved Moved as Director

2003

I am (Not) Seen as Director

1996

Sky and Ground as Director

1995

This Is a Camera Which Shoots This as Director

As I See You You See Me as Director

1993

A I U E O NN Six Features as Director

1991

Concept tape 3 (Performance) as Director

Concept Tapes 1 as Director

Concept Tapes 2 as Director

Fluxus Replayed as Director

1989

MA: Space/Time in the Garden of Ryoan-ji as Director

New York Day and Night: A Journey through Light and Darkness as Director

The Making of MA in Ryoan-ji as Director

Scared to Death as Director

1987

Double Portrait as Director

I Love You as Director

1985

John Cage Performs James Joyce as Director

Air's Rock as Director

Moments At The Rock as Director

1984

New York Hot Springs as Director

Shadowman (The Structure of Seeing and Hearing) as Director

1981

Talking in New York as Director

Talking Picture (The Structure of Film Viewing) as Director

I Am A Viewer You Are A Viewer as Director

Circle & Square as Director

1978

Sync Sound as Director

1977

Visual Logic (and Illogic) as Director

MA (Intervals) as Director

One Frame Duration as Director

1976

Camera, Monitor, Frame as Director

Observer / Observed / Observer as Director

1975

Observer / Observed as Director

24 Frames per Second as Director

1973

1 To 60 Seconds as Director

Plus and Minus as Director

1972

Models: B-4: Seeing, Not Seeing as Director

Timed 1, 2, 3 as Director

Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here as Director

Models: A-1: 2 Min. 46 Sec. 16 Frames as Director

Models: A-2: Timing 1, 2, 3, 4 as Director

Models: A-3: Time Length 1,2,3,4 as Director

Models: B-1: Counting, 100 Or X's as Director

Models: B-2: A Line 1, 2, 3 as Director

Models: B-3: To See the Frame, Not to See the Frame as Director

1971

Shutter as Director

Man and Woman as Director

Time Tunnel as Director

The Pacific Ocean as Director

1970

A Chair as Director

Blinking as Director

In The River as Director

Film Strips I as Director

Film Strips II as Director

Kiri (The Fog) as Director

Buddha Again as Director

1969

Face as Director

Filmmakers as Director

Flowers as Director

1967

White Calligraphy as Director

Shelter 9999 as Director

Japanese Erotica: Five Films on Love and Sex from the Japanese Underground of the Experimental Cinema as Director

New York Scenes as Director

1966

Why Don't You Sneeze as Director

Honey Moon as Director

I Saw the Shadow as Director

Taka and Ako as Director

1965

Rose Color Dance as Director

1964

A Dance Party in the Kingdom of Lilliput as Director

Inside & Outside as Director

My Documentary as Director

Dead Movie as Director

1963

Sakasama (Upside Down) as Director

Desade as Director

Onan as Director

The Masseurs as Director

1962

6x6 (Oukan Densentsu) as Director

Love as Director

Junk as Director

On Eye Rape as Director

Iro (Colors) as Director

Dada 62 as Director

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Ukiyo Ukare as Director

Crew

1963

Onan as Cinematography

Writing

1993

A I U E O NN Six Features as Writer

1989

MA: Space/Time in the Garden of Ryoan-ji as Writer

1976

Observer / Observed / Observer as Writer

1975

Observer / Observed as Writer

1963

The Masseurs as Writer

Production

1972

Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here as Producer

1963

Onan as Producer

Camera

2008

A Rock In The Light as Director of Photography

1985

Moments At The Rock as Director of Photography

Editing

2008

A Rock In The Light as Editor

1985

Moments At The Rock as Editor