{"identifier":"TI-Film_6311367915112","browse_author":"Takahiko Iimura (Director) and Takahiko Iimura (Proprietor (Publisher Bloomsbury Video))","subscription_list":["bvl_filmmedia"],"titleByTitle":"Yes","isbn":9781350903722,"description":"Since the 1960s, Takahiko Iimura\u2019s explorations of the moving image have probed the relationship between media, time and language and have strived to redefine the exhibition of cinema as a mode of performance. He has worked closely with the giants of experimental film such as members of the Hi-Red Centre and Fluxus, Yoko Ono, Jonas Mekas, John Cage, Stan Brakhage and Stan Vanderbeek. His uncompromising work, bridges boundaries between film and performance art. \n \"Iimura creates a short self-portrait as well as brief portraits of five of his peers: Brakhage, Vanderbeek, Smith, Mekas and Warhol. In each portrait, Iimura attempts to copy the styles and traits of each artist (Vanderbeek's constantly moving camera; Mekas' experiments with film speed; Warhol's use of flashes of white against a black background), while briefly commenting on the images being shown.The film serves effectively as an introduction to the film styles of these artists.\" - Trent Daniel, art house/international (USA) \n \"Although Taka 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. While the intensity and the fire of the American avant-garde film movement inspired him and attracted him, his Japanese origins contributed decisively to his uncompromising explorations of cinema's minimalist and conceptualist possibilities. He has explored this direction of cinema in greater depth than anyone else.\" \u2013Jonas Mekas \n \u201cFrom 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\u201d - Malcolm Le Grice Language - English","videoId":6311367915112,"browse_view":"contentTypeBrowsePageIndexView","subscription":"bvl_filmmedia","title":"Filmmakers","xml_source":"bvl_filmmedia_video-vra.xml","browse_search":"TI-Film","videoPoster":"https://cf-images.eu-west-1.prod.boltdns.net/v1/static/4171818645001/df5a5d93-e4c5-4e9f-8754-0129688117f5/510cddd9-e7a9-4979-a268-0810307a8c40/1280x720/match/image.jpg","facets":"avantGardeExperimentalFilm , Avant Garde/Experimental film , experimentalFilm , Experimental film , filmAndCinema , Film and Cinema , avantGarde , Avant-Garde , made_19601969 , 1960\u20131969 , made_19001999 , 1900\u20131999 , english , English , origin_japan , Japan , origin_asia , Asia , video , Video , artsAndLiterature , Arts and literature ,","contenttypeorder":3,"date_of_publication":1968,"productname":"bvl_all","id_search":"TI-Film","facet":["artsAndLiterature","avantGarde","avantGardeExperimentalFilm","english","experimentalFilm","filmAndCinema","made_19001999","made_19601969","origin_asia","origin_japan","video"],"contentType":"video","authors":"Takahiko Iimura~Takahiko Iimura"}