Movies

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

On John's 31st birthday, Yoko held an art exhibit, "This Is Not Here", at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, N.Y.. The show was taped and aired...

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

"10 minutes of the act of creation itself run through close up and magnifying lenses. " -T.I.

Takahiko Iimura's Models Series

One of the earliest minimalist video with flicker effects was produced in Tokyo in early 1970s. A flickering video with eyes, which super-impose the...

Iimura creates a short self-portrait as well as brief portraits of five of his peers: Brakhage, Vanderbeek, Smith, Mekas and Warhol. In each...

First projected onto Jiro Takamatsu's naked back at the legendary Sogetsu Art Center for the performance Screen Play, Colors is an experiment in...

From the collector of Marquis de Sade in the early 1960s, still a 'dark age ' of erotic picture, even his novels were forbidden to publish in Tokyo,...

"It's a mixture of [dead] animals, pieces of [broken] furniture, industrial waste, kids playing. I didn't have in mind any of the kind of historical...

Anma (The Masseurs) is a representative and historical work by the creator of Butoh dance, Tatsumi Hijikata in his early period in the 1960s. The...

This video deals with the perception of seeing including the words as I see you, I am seen, and I am not seen. These words are superimposed over the...

"The Making..." showed not only the process of film-making, but also the creation of "MA" as a work.

Cameras observing each other.

A boy and a girl in a small room, having a fight, making love and suddenly . . . a black humor on a young couple.—Takahiko Iimura, Paper Film:...

Demonstrates the visual logic (and illogic) of sign combining with limited movements of camera for panning and zooming.

Video began as a medium that inspired discovery. This art documentary traces the expressive roots of “media art” in Japan — works...

Film installation by Japanese experimental filmmaker Takahiko Iimura.

A compilation tape of performances including John Cage Performs James Joyce, Arakawa, and Iimura's first AIUEONN and As I See You You See Me shot...

I lived in the East village of New York in the mid sixties, a high time of the hippie movement. I had been involved myself in the environment of the...