Alberte Pagán

TAKA IIMURA interviewed

The Image of Time

TAKA IIMURA interviewed

The Image of Time

Taka Iimura interviewed by Alberte Pagán

[published online 1-02-2015]
[collected in the book Emotional Materials / Personal Processes. Six Interviews with Experimental Filmmakers, StereoEditions, 2022]

Filmography of Taka Iimura

This filmography is mainly taken from The Collected Writings of Takahiko iimura (Wildside Press, 2007). It is not a comprehensive filmography, as Iimura has been very active revising his films, turning them into videos, transforming them into performances, transferring them onto tape or making new DVD versions. Most of the films originally filmed on regular 8mm have been blown up to 16mm, which are the versions currently screened. The filmmaker has also added a new soundtrack to the DVD transfer of some of his early films, previously silent. In some cases he re-edited them, too, shortening the original length. Performances and installations have not been included.

Kuzu (Junk, 1962, 8’, 8mm, b/w, sound)
On Eye Rape (1962, 9’, 16mm, colour, silent)
Iro (Colour, 1962, 12’, 8mm, colour, sound)
Dada 62 (1962, 10’, 8mm, b/w, silent)
De Sade (1962, 10’, 8mm, b/, sound)
Ai (Love, 1962, 10’, 8mm, b/w, sound)
Onan (1963, 7’, 16mm, b/w, sound)
Sakasama (Upside Down, 1963, 14’, 8mm, b/w, sound)
Anma (The Masseurs, 1963, 20’, 8mm, silent)
Ura to omote (Inside & Outside, 1964, 2’, 16mm, b/w, silent)
My Documentary (1964, 3’30”, 16mm, b/w, silent)
Barairo no dansu (Rose Colour Dance, 1964, 13’, 8mm, b/w, silent)
A Dance Party in the Kingdom of Lilliput (1964, 12’, 16mm, b/w, sound)
I Saw the Shadow (1966, 13’, 8mm, b/w, silent)
Honey Moon (1966, 7’, 8mm, colour & b/w, silent)
Taka and Ako (1966, 13’, 8mm, b/w, silent)
New York Scene (1966, 35’, 8mm, colour, silent)
White Calligraphy (1967, 11’, 16mm, b/w, silent)
Summer Happenings U.S.A. (1967-68, 28’, 16mm, b/w, sound)
Camera Massage (1968, 6’, 16mm, b/w, sound)
Flowers (1968-69, 11’, 16mm, colour, sound)
Flowers Orgy (1968, 12’, 16mm, colour, sound)
Virgin (1968, 12’, 16mm, colour, silent)
Face (1968-69, 17’, 16mm, colour, sound)
Filmmakers (1969, 28’, 16mm, colour, sound)
Kiri (The Fog,1970, 5’, 8mm, b/w, silent)
I Love You (1970, 8’, 16mm, colour, sound)
Film Strips I & II (1966-1970, 12’ & 13’, 16mm, b/w, sound)
Buddha Again (1969-70, 12’, 16mm, colour, sound)
In The River (1969-70, 17’, 16mm, colour, sound)
A Chair (1970, 5’, video, b/w, sound)
Blinking (1970, 5’, video, b/w, sound)
Time Trilogy:

Time (1971, 5’, video, b/w, sound)
Moon Timed (1971, 15’, video, b/w, sound)
Time Tunnel (1971, 35’, video, b/w, sound)

The Pacific Ocean (1971, 11’, 8mm, colour, silent)
Shutter (1971, 25’, 16mm, b/w, sound)
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here (1972, 18’, 16mm, colour, sound)
Models, Reel 1 (1972, 43’, 16mm, b/w, sound)

Contains 4 short pieces:
2 min 46 sec 16 frames (100 feet) (1972, 8’, 16mm, b/w, sound)
Timing 1, 2, 3, 4 (1972, 9′, 16mm, b/w, sound)
Time Length 1, 2, 3, 4 (1972, 12′, 16mm, b/w, sound)
Timed 1, 2, 3 (1972, 10’, 16mm, b/w, sound)

Models, Reel 2 (1972, 44’, 16mm, b/w, silent)

Contains 4 short pieces:
Counting: 1 to 100 or Xs (1972, 12’, 16mm, b/w, silent)
A Line (Parts 1, 2, 3) (1972, 10′, 16mm, b/w, silent)
To See the Frame, Not to See the Frame (1972, 12′, 16mm, b/w, silent)
Seeing, Not Seeing (1972, 4′, 16mm, b/w, silent)

Register Yourself (Berlin Tape) (1973, 30’, video, b/w, sound)
Register Yourself (New York Tape) (1973, 30’, video, b/w, sound
+ & – (1973, 26’, 16mm, b/w, sound)
1 To 60 Seconds (1973, 30’, 16mm, b/w, sound)
Parallel (1974, 28’, 16mm, b/w, silent)
Field Works (1974, 30’, video, b/w, sound)
Video Field (1975, 12’, video, b/w, sound)
24 Frames Per Second (1975, 24’, 16mm, b/w, sound)
Observer / Observed (1975, 20’, video, b/w, sound)
Observer / Observed / Observer (1976, 19’, video, b/w, sound)
Camera, Monitor, Frame (1976, 20’, video, b/w, sound)
Visual Logic (and Illogic) (1977, 20’, video, b/w, sound)
Talking to Myself: Phenomenological Operation (1978, 17’, video, colour, sound)
Sync sound (1977, 9’, 16mm, b/w, sound)
Ma (Intervals) (1977, 22’, 16mm, b/w ann colour, sound)
One Frame Duration (1977, 12’, 16mm, b/w and colour, sound)
I=You=He / She (1979, 30’, video, b/w, sound)
Double Identities (1979, 8’, video, colour, sound)
Interviewer / Interviewed (1980, 30’, video, colour, sound)
Repeated / Reversed Time (1980, 12’, 16mm, b/w, sound)
Talking In New York (1980, 18’, 8mm, colour, sound)
Talking Pictures (The Structure Of Film Viewing) (1981, 15’, 8mm, colour, sound)
Self Introduction (1982, 10’, vido, colour, sound)
Video Talking: Back to Back (1982, 30’, video, colour, sound)
Video Gesture (1982, 9’, video, colour, sound)
Video Hundred Features (1982, 10’, colour, sound)
Video Self: I=You=He / She (1982, 30’, video, colour, sound)
A I U E O NN (1982, 10’, video, colour, sound)
A Conversation with Video (1983, 16’, video, colour, sound)
Robina Rose and Me (1983, 12’, video, colour, sound)
Hit Your Own Back (1983, 8’, video, colour, sound)
Happy Halloween (1983, 11’, video, colour, sound)
New York Hotspring (1984, 10’, video, colour, sound)
Colette (1984, 11’, video, colour, sound)
Ayers Rock (1985, 40’, video, colour, sound)
Moments at the Rock (1985, 12’, video, colour, sound)
Talking to Myself at PS1 (1985, 11’, video, colour, sound)
John Cage Performs James Joyce (1985, 15’, video, colour, sound)
Arakawa: Atmospheric Resemblance (A Life of Blank) (1986, 11’, video, colour, sound)
Double Portrait (1973-1987, 6’, video, b/w and colour, sound)
I Love You (1973-1987, 5’, video, b/w and colour, sound)
Monet Garden Synthesized (1988, 15’, video, colour, sound)
New York Day and Night (1989, 55’, video, colour, sound)
Ma: Space / Time In The Garden Of Ryoan-Ji (1989, 16’, 16mm, colour, sound)
Scared to Death (1989, 7’, video, colour, sound)
Excerpts from “Ayers Rock” (1990, 20’, video, colour, sound)
To the Garden of Water Lilies (1990, 31’, video, colour, sound)
Fluxus Replayed (1991, 30’, video, b/w, sound)
Sky and Ground (1991-93, 59’, video, colour, sound)
A I U E O NN: Six Features (1993, 7’, video, colour, sound)
This is a Camera Which Shoots This (1982-85, 5’, video, b/w, sound)
As I See You You See Me (1990-97, 7’, video, b/w, sound)
Seeing / Hearing / Speaking (2001, 7’, video, b/w, sound)
I Am (Not) Seen (2003, 5’, video, colour, sound)
Ma: The Stones Have Moved (2003, 8’, video, b/w, silent)
Shadowman (The Structure of Seeing / Hearing) (1984-2008, 8’, video, colour, sound)
A Rock in the Light (2008, 18’, video, colour, sound)
Making an Audience (2006-2013, 12’, video, colour, sound)


Pagán, Iimura and Ángel Rueda presenting As I See You See Me at the
(S8) Mostra (Photo by María Meseguer).

Self shot in Kuzu.

Extreme close up in Ai.

Iimura during his performance White Calligraphy Re-Read at the (S8) Mostra
(Photo by María Meseguer).

Iimura in front of the end result of his performance White Calligraphy at the
(S8) Mostra (Photo by María Meseguer).

Screening of the 8mm White Calligraphy during the performance at the (S8) Mostra (projector by courtesy of Cris Lores).

24 Frames per Second.

Diagram for 24 Frames per Second.

Ayers Rock.

Iimura during his performance at the (S8) Mostra (Photo by María Meseguer).

Iimura during his performance at the (S8) Mostra (Photo by María Meseguer).

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