[Frameworks] SAT 11/24: TAKAHIKO IIMURA, US premiere of "Screen Play" and "Early Film Poems" at Microscope Gallery, 7PM

[LBurchill]

SAT NOVEMBER 24, 7PM

TAKAHIKO IIMURA 60-70s: PERFORMANCE/FILM/VIDEO

*US Premiere of Screen Play*, a film performance

& screening of *Early Film Poems*

Artist in Person,

Admission $6



We are very pleased to welcome Takahiko Iimura back to Microscope for a
special one-night performance and screening, including the US premiere of
his 1963 16mm film performance *Screen Play*. Iimura will also present
his *Early
Film Poems, *a collection of 6 works made between 1962 and 1971 (shot on
16mm, 8mm and video) and bearing witness to the artist's early interest in
Dadaist poetry. New soundtracks by Akiko Samukawa now accompany several of
the films.



In *Screen Play *-* *which originally premiered in1963, at Sogetsu Hall in
Tokyo - the film *Iro (Color) (16mm, color, 1962) *is projected directly
onto the back of a performer whose clothes iimura gradually cuts away along
the borders of the image. In this work, Iimura frees the projection screen
from the rigid structure of the traditional screening by intervening on the
projectable surface itself, allowing the light to pierce through the fabric
and touch the skin of the body.



Iimura says about the projected film:



I filmed the chemical reactions that emerged when I dropped some paint into
oil from a close distance, maybe from ten centimetres away. These colours
exploded and created waves, and for at the end I heated it up from
underneath until it went black. Nekes once filmed an operation and
projected that onto his stomach, but that was done in 1965 so I was a bit
earlier.





PROGRAM:



LIVE FILM PERFORMANCE



‘Screen Play’ (originally 1963), about 15min.

w/Taka Iimura "The Film Cutter" and Andrea Monti "The Sitter"

* *

SCREENING PROGRAM


"Early Film Poems" 16mm & 8mm transferred to DVD, 6 films, 44 minutes



*The Pacific Ocean* (1971), 7min. music: Akiko Samukawa (2012)



*Kiri* (The Fog) (1970), 3min. silent


*Honey Moon* (1966) 7min. music: Akiko Samukawa(2012)



*I Saw the Shadow* (1966) 7min. silent



*Iro* (Colors) (1962) 10min. music: Yasunao Tone (1962)



*Dada* 62 (1962) 10min. music: Haruyuki Suzuki (2012)


Full program notes and other info at: www.microscopegallery.com

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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.



MICROSCOPE GALLERY

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Brooklyn, NY 11221

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B54 - Myrtle/Willoughby stop is directly across the street
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