From: rebekah rutkoff (email suppressed)
Date: Mon Mar 12 2007 - 03:24:08 PDT
Taka Iimura asked me to pass on information about two upcoming programs in
NYC.
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Taka iimura: two screening
at Millennium and Anthology Film Archives
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Saturday, March 24, 2007 8pm. at Millennium
The filmaker in person.
Takahiko Iimura has been a pioneer Japanese artist of experimental film and
video since 1960.
Residing in both Tokyo and New York, Iimura has had numerous exhibitions in
Japan, the US, and Europe. One of his early films, ONAN, was awarded Special
Prize at the legendary Brussels Interna-
tional Experimental Festival. Recently, he has been working with computers,
publishing multimedia
CD-ROMs and DVDs of his films, videos, graphics, texts, as well as
photographic works. Perhaps the most enigmatic figure in avant-garde
cinema/video, TAKAHIKO IIMURA mediates Zen spirituality
and technology with playful irony.
This program will be composed of a selection of TAKA IIMURA's very earliest
work including, EXPERIMENTS IN NEW YORK - NEW YORK SCENES (10 min.-1967),
NEW YORK HOT SPRINGS
(11 min.-1984), TALKING IN NEW YORK (8 min.-1981), FILMMAKERS (28
min.-196668).
Millennium,
66 East 4th Street, Between 3rd and 2nd Avenue, New York, 10003
Tel: 212-673-0090 Entrance $8 Subway: #6 to Astor place
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Tuesday, April 10, 7pm. at Anthology Film Archives
PERFORMANCE FILMS
The filmaker in person.
CINE DANCE: THE BUTOH OF TATSUMI HIJIKATA with Tatsumi Hijikata & Kazuo
Ohno
Anma(The Masseurs) (20min.-1963) Rose Colored Dance (13min.-1965)
Live music by Tomomi Adachi, from Tokyo
FLUXUS REPLAYED (30 min.-1991) With Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Dick Higgins,
George
Brecht, Alliso Knowles, Ben Patterson, Jackson Mac Low
"In Fluxus Replayed also released in 2005, Iimura documents an event in 1991
held to reproduce historical performances by NYC-based Fluxus artists of the
1960s." Mike Leggett, Leonardo
Digital Review, MIT Press.
JOHN CAGE PERFORMS JAMES JOYCE (15 min,-1985) with John Cage
"Like so many of his(Cage's) initiatives, the line between the artwork and
its making is blurred, a statement aided and amplified by Iimura�s
collaboration in its making." Mike Leggett, Leonardo
Digital Review, MIT Press.
Anthology Film Archives,
32 Second Avenue (at Second Street), New York, 10003
Tel: (212) 505-5181 Entrance $8, $6 for seniors & students with ID.
Subway: #6 to Bleeker St.,2 blocks North on Lafayette;East on Bons St to 2nd
Ave.
The above DVDs, an art object "Canned DVD", and new book "The Collected
Writings of Takahiko
iimura" (Wildside Press) are available for sale.
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