TAKAHIKO IIMURA 2008 Spring tour in USA

April 8th (TUE)
BERKS FILMMAKERS (Reading)
April 9th(WED)
Moviate (Harrisburg)
May 1 (THU)
Anthology Film Archives ( New York)

○ April 8th (TUE)
BERKS FILMMAKERS, Reading, Pa 19610 USA

Program A (From DVD "60s EXPERIMENTS" )
Program B (From DVD"MA , A Japanese Concept")

○ April 9th(WED)
Moviate,Harrisburg, Pa 17105-5105 USA

Program A (From DVD "60s EXPERIMENTS" )
Program B (From DVD"MA , A Japanese Concept")

Program A (Total 47min., All 16mm) ・Kuzu (Junks), 1962m 10min., B/W, Music by Takehisa Kosugi ・Ai (LOVE), 1962, 15min., B/W, Music by Yoko Ono ・On Eye Rape, 1962, 10min., B/W/Color, Silent, 　Co-Pro Natsuyuki Nakanishi ・A Dance Party in the Kingdom of Lilliput, 1962, 12min., B/W
		"ON EYE RAPE"

"From the early sixties, though Japanese,
Iimura was well known as one of the first generation
of the New York Underground - for many years,
Japanese experimental film was Takahiko Iimura."
Malcolm Le Grice

"LOVE is a poetic and sensuous exploration of the body...
fluid, direct, beautiful"
Jonas Mekas

Program B ( Total 36min. 16mm and DVD) ・MA: SPACE/TIME IN THE GARDEN OF RYOAN-JI 1989, 16mm, Color, 16min. Sound Produced: Program for Art on Film, New York, with support from Metropolitan Museum for Art, New York, & J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles Music: Takehisa Kosugi, Text: Arata Isozaki ・THE MAKING OF <MA> IN RYOAN-JI 1989, Video, B/W & Color, 10min., Sound ・MA: THE STONES HAVE MOVED 2004, Video, B/W & Color, 10min., Silent Co-produced: Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, Ca., USA
		"MA:SPACE/TIME IN THE GARDEN OF RYOAN-JI"

"Ma appears to apply itself to an infinity of cases, figures, occurrences,
it comes from an elementary structural strategy
that defines the ideogram's double emblem well enough,
a sun in the embrasure of a door."
- Daniel Charles (The author of John Cage)

program: ON TIME IN FILM/DVD

・24FRAMES PER SECOND　 (1975-78/2007, 16mm/dvd, b/w, 10min.35sec., sound.) ・TIMED 1, 2, 3 (From MODELS, Reel 1) （1972/2007,16mm/dvd, b/w,10min.15sec., ,sound) ・ONE FRAME DURATION （1977/2007, 16mm/dvd, b/w & color, 11min., sound.） ・1 TO 60 SECONDS (1973, 16mm, b/w, 30min.30sec.sound)

"Time is, as it has been said by John Cage on music, the most important issue on film".
( Takahiko iimura)

"In concentrating on this set of problems, often wrongly seen as 'minimalist',
Iimura went much, much further than any other film artist in exploring a kind of art-science. This concern with the experience of time, its measured passage and the analogy between time and space, has been the main recurring theme at the centre of his work."
Malcolm Le Grice（The author of "Abstract Film and Beyond", MIT Press)

" 24 Frames Per second is a quintessential Iimura film."
Scott MacDonald
（The author of "Critical Cinema", California University Press)

"My favorite section of Models - <Timed 1, 2, 3>- is
a particularly effective interweaving of visuals and sounds."
Scott MacDonald

"1 to 60 Seconds Iimura does an extrordinary thing:
he abstracts time from any concrete associations,
seems to put it on the screen and there you sit looking at (or for) it, experiencing it. "
Paul Poggiali, The Soho Weekly News,