Iimura Takahiko in San Francisco

[M. B. Sas]

An intriguing event with Iimura in person, for those in the S.F. Bay area...
Miryam

Observer Observed: Film/Video Works by Takahiko Iimura

Working in film since the early 1960s and in video since the early 1970s
(as well as significant forays into performance, installation and
computer-based work), Takahiko Iimura has long been a pioneer of Japanese
experimental media art. His body of work has deeply explored the material
and conceptual foundations of each medium with robust intellectual rigor
and flashes of playful humor. Presented in the wake of a recent
Microcinema International DVD release (the first volume of The Collected
Films) and a related book (The Collected Writings from Wildside Press),
this two-part mini-retrospective represents an overview of this artist?s
rich and remarkable body of work.

Takahiko Iimura will be present at both screenings.
Co-presented by San Francisco Cinematheque.


Takahiko Iimura: 60's Experiments and Early Conceptual Videos
Saturday, 3/14 3:00 PM Sundance Kabuki 3, 1881 Post Street
Program Running Time is 70 min
Takahiko Iimura's earliest films were largely inspired by the work of the
1920s French surrealists and produced in relative isolation in Japan.
Created using 8mm cameras or abandoned and distressed found footage, they
possess the intimacy of the home movie and a taboo-breaking joyousness,
exploring abstraction and eroticism with charming candor and a whimsical
sense of the absurd. These early films are screened with a sampling of
video works from the 1970s and '80s.
http://filmguide.festival.asianamericanmedia.org/tixSYS/2009/filmguide/prognote.php?ProgCode=TAKA1

Takahiko Iimura: On Time In Film
Sunday, 3/15 7:30 PM Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street
Program Running Time is 70 min
Iimura is perhaps best known for his work exploring the temporality of
Cinema, i.e. the various ways the film viewer's elemental sense of time
can be "played with" by the filmmaker. Frequently using the most basic of
film elements?white light, black leader and the projection
environment?Iimura's work in this area is among the most abstract and
elemental in all of cinema.
http://filmguide.festival.asianamericanmedia.org/tixSYS/2009/filmguide/programs/TAKA2

Tickets are available online at www.asianamericanmedia.org or at the
Kabuki box office.

Center for Asian American Media
145 Ninth Street, Suite 350
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415) 552-9550 (tel)
(415) 863-7428 (fax)
www.asianamericanmedia.org