[Frameworks] A Celebration and Screening of TAKAHIKO IIMURA

[Takahiko iimura]

A Celebration and Screening of TAKAHIKO IIMURA

Takahiko Iimura (飯村隆彦 Iimura Takahiko, born February 20, 1937) is a Japanese <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_people> avant-garde filmmaker and fine artist. He is considered one of the pioneers of experimental <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_film> and independent <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_film> filmmaking in Japan. Iimura was born in Tokyo and is a graduate of Keio University <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keio_University>. His film Onan (1963) won the Special Prize at the Brussels International Independent Film Festival <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_International_Independent_Film_Festival> in 1964. He published a seminal work on experimental film and film art in 1970, Geijutsu to higeijutsu no aida, and a biography of Yoko Ono <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Ono>, Ono Yōko hito to sakuhin, in 1985.Eizou-art no genten, in 2015. Iimura made much of his film in New York City, but became a professor at the Nagoya Zokei University of Art & Design <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagoya_Zokei_University> in 1992 and Tokyo Kougei University in 2003. 

Awarded Korou-Shou(Life-Time Contribution Award to Film-Art from Bunka-Chou(The Agency of Cultural Affairs) ),2015, Japan


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Saturday, December 9th @6pm,  
                                              
AI (LOVE) (1962). 10 min. 16mm.


AI (LOVE) (1962). 10 min. 16mm.

IN THE RIVER (1971) 12 min. 16mm.

TALKING PICTURE (1981) 15 min. 16mm.

OBSERVER/OBSERVED (1999). 22 min. Digital.

AIUEONN, SIX FEATURES (2005) 7 min. 16mm.


“Although Takahiko was an active part of  the New York avant-garde scene, he always remained an enigmatic, mysterious presence, pursuing his own unique route through the very center of the avant-garde cinema. While the intensity and the fire of the American avant-garde film movement inspired him and attracted him, his Japanese origins contributed decisively to his uncompromising explorations of cinema’s minimalist and conceptualist possibilities. He has explored this direction of cinema in greater depth than anyone else.” – Jonas Mekas, Director, Anthology  Film Archives, New York


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