Takahiko Iimura

Lecture and presentation of videos by Takahiko Iimura (Tokyo, 1937), one of the artists who pioneered video art and avant-garde film in Japan. This presentation is conceived as a short anthology of Iimura's work, beginning in 1962 and evolving through various stages and forms of experimentation: surrealist film mixing erotic elements with a certain social criticism; minimalist explorations of space and time, combining the basic elements of structural cinema with Zen experiences, etc.

In almost forty years of professional activity, Iimura has explored a whole spectrum of technical supports: 8- and 16-mm film, video, CD-ROM. These procedures and devices have enabled him to work in a great variety of formal registers, from the film poem to experiences of a linguistic nature, by way of the documentary or the structural film.