Takahiko Iimura's earliest films were largely inspired by the work of the 1920s French surrealists and produced in relative isolation in Japan. Created using 8mm cameras or abandoned and distressed found footage, they possess the intimacy of the home movie and a taboo-breaking joyousness, exploring abstraction and eroticism with charming candor and a whimsical sense of the absurd. These early films are screened with a sampling of video works from the 1970s and '80s.
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Iimura is perhaps best known for his work exploring the temporality of Cinema, i.e. the various ways the film viewer's elemental sense of time can be "played with" by the filmmaker. Frequently using the most basic of film elements—white light, black leader and the projection environment—Iimura's work in this area is among the most abstract and elemental in all of cinema.
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