Eiga Arts June Programme

[Joss Winn]

Eiga Arts
June 26th
Gallery Yuu, Shirayama, Saga city, Japan
7.30pm



Eiga Arts celebrates it's new location with the work of Takahiko Iimura.
Iimura will be at Eiga Arts to show his work and talk with people at the
after-show party.

Due to space, tickets are limited to 40 people.  Contact Joss to reserve
tickets as soon as possible.  Pay on the night. 800YEN/free to the poor.
All tickets sold will go towards paying for Iimura's flight from Tokyo.

The programme will begin at 7.30pm and last about two hours with a small
party to follow. Doors open at 7pm.
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"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."  (Programme notes by Malcolm Le
Grice for Iimura retrospective, The LUX Centre, London, 1998.)

"Iimura's work has continued to open up new ground...he is a significant
and singular film maker but also one of the most important conceptual
artists working in any medium."
(Le Grice, 1975.)

"Although Takahiko Iimura was, and continues to be, 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...he explored this direction of cinema in greater depth
than anyone else...[Seeing his work] is an important occasion for all
concerned with the development and pleasures of cinema as an art." (Jonas
Mekas).

"One of the foremost video and film artists in the world" (Studio 200
Exhibition programme notes, 1991).


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Programme

Ai (Love) (1962-3, 16mm, 12mins)
"Close-ups of a male and a female body during lovemaking are photographed
in such a way that we are frequently unsure which particular portion of
which body we are seeing." Soundtrack by Yoko Ono.  (Scott MacDonald)

24 frames per second (1975-8, 16mm, 12mins)
"Both in terms of its examination of time and space, of light and darkness,
of visuals and sounds; and in terms of its demands and potential rewards
for an audience...[24fps] is a quintessential Iimura film." (Scott
MacDonald)

MA: Space/Time In The Garden of Ryoan-ji (1989, 16mm, 16mins)
"...simultaneously a fine introduction to a classic Japanese garden and the
concept of MA, and to the central dimensions of Iimura's earlier work."
(Scott MacDonald)

Moments At The Rock (1985, videotape, 11mins)
"Very alluring...The pace of the images and sounds become hypnotic and
creates a sense of 'dream time,' something basic to the Aboriginal monument
itself." (Carl E. Loeffler)

Observer/Observed Trilogy (1975-6, Revised in 1998, videotape, 22mins)
Collected video semiology exploring the relationship between language and
video (camera, monitor, frame and identity)

New York Hot Springs (1984, videotape, 10mins)
"In Japan, hot springs are a high art form.  To translate this to New York
is a supreme Dada gesture." (Loeffler)

A.I.U.E.O.NN SIX FEATURES (1993, videotape, 3mins)
"Using Japanese vowels, 'A I U E O' and an extra 'NN', six funny faces
which are manipulated by a computer programme called 'System G',
synchronize with the voice." (Iimura)


For more information on Iimura, go to:
http://www2.gol.com/users/iimura/Front.html

Joss Winn

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