60s Experiments

Director: Takahiko Iimura

Year: 1964
Country: Japan
Length: 51 mins
Format: NTSC | R0
Colour: Black & White | Colour
Aspect Ratio: 1.33: 1
Certificate: E

Synopsis

"From 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

"In Junk, surreal imagery is used effectively to dramatize the slow ecological destruction brought about by a wasteful industrialized society." — Scott MacDonald

"A Dance Party In The Kingdom Of Lilliput may well be one of the first 'Conceptual' film ever made anywhere in the world. It was a rather slow, but clearly defined daily motions of Kazakura, a mysterious underground figure of Japan." — Nam June Paik

"A playful irony attenuates and lightens the conceptual weight of Iimura's art, always poised between abstract and concrete, Zen spirituality and technology, utmost sparseness and complex mechanicalness of seeing." — Bruno Di Marino

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

Film Listing

- Junk (1962, 10 mins Music by Takehisa Kosugi)
- Ai (1962, 10 mins, Music by Yoko Ono)
- On Eye Rape (1962, 10 mins)
- A Dance Party In The Kingdom Of Lilliput (1964, 12 mins)

- An Interview with Takahiko Iimura by Damien Sanville & Niina Hartikainen
- I saw my first Iimura film in 1964… by Jonas Mekas
- Takahiko Iimura in Interview by Esperanza Collado