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- Takahiko Iimura was born on February 20, 1937 in Tokyo, Japan. He was a director and writer, known for Onan (1963), De Sade (1962) and Japanese Erotica: Five Films on Love and Sex from the Japanese Underground of the Experimental Cinema (1967). He was married to Akiko Iimura. He died on July 31, 2022 in Tokyo, Japan.
- SpouseAkiko Iimura(1966 - ?)
- Formed the collective 'Japan Film Andepandan' (Independents) with Donald Richie and Nobuhiko Ôbayashi in 1964.
- In 1966, he moved to the U.S., becoming one influential member of the first generation of NY underground experimental filmmakers, and since then he has produced work internationally.
- 1969-1970: Touring twelve European countries for film shows at museums and cinematheques.
- [September 2010] I have worked in film, experimental film, I mean, since 1962, and have produced quite a number of works but I was excited by video as a new media. Although I didn't have a video recorder or camera at that time, so when I got back to Tokyo the first thing I bought was a video camera, recorder and monitor and I started working with video. That was around the end of 1969, when I went back to Tokyo. It took me a year or so to start making my first works. I made A Chair (1970) and Blinking (1971) both in 1970.
- [March 1980, about the video installation 'Talking to Myself: Phenomenological Operation']: In the closed circuit system, the video camera (the observer) gets feedback from the monitor (the observed), by which the image refers not only to the registered object but also to that which is doing the registering.
- [in August 2009, about 'Ai (Love)'] I used photographic material in my early films, although, in the case of Ai (1962), for instance, the shots were so close to the subjects during the sexual act that the image becomes abstract and difficult to discern as such.
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