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Preparatory Office for Takahiko IIMURA Archiving 

about Preparatory Office for Takahiko IIMURA Archiving

Preparatory Office for Takahiko IIMURA Archiving is archiving his experimental film, video art, performance, instllation and other materials or writings of Taka Iimura who passed away in 2022. Our task is to digitalize and preserve Iimura’s works to realize onward researching and inspection of media art in Japan after world war II.

Takahiko Iimura  (1937-2022)

Iimura (b.1937, Tokyo, d.2022) is an artist and filmmaker who started individually creating avant-garde film pieces by 8mm and 16mm film in 1960s. He organized an experimental film group, “Film Independent” in 1964 and the group held independent film festivals. His film piece Love (1962) was rated high by Jonas Mekas in New York, and Iimura toured his film shows in Europe. In early 1970’s he began to create video tapes, after that his activities opened widely and globally with his installation and performance pieces. He won Special Achievement Award in Japan Media Arts Festival in 2015. He took part in Art Basel Hong Kong 2018 in his lifetime, and his activities were introduced in Films by Takahiko Iimura, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, 2023, Time Tunnel: Takahiko Iimura, 18. April 1973, Berlin International Film Festival, Kino Arsenal Berlin, 2023, Video Field, MORI YU Gallery, Kyoto, 2023,etc. after his death.

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Japanese Moving Image Artists in the US, 1960s-1970s


June 14- August 9 2024, Philadelphia Art Alliance of the University of the Arts
curated by Collaborative Cataloging Japan (CCJ)

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猿の橋実験舞台トーキョー・クライシス・プラン

7月21日〜23日 成城学園、アトリエ第Q芸術

「あんま」1963 「バラ色ダンス」1965 上映

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Screening at Anthology Film Archives,

July 21- August 2, 2023

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Takahiko IIMURA Video Field

March 4-26, 2023
MORI YU Gallery (京都で開催される飯村隆彦の回顧展にて、当該アーカイヴ事業より展示用動画を提供します。

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恵比寿映像祭2023 東京都写真美術館2023年2月3日ー19日


飯村隆彦特集の上映は2月4日・7日・15日
​写真美術館に寄贈されたフィルム作品とVCTビデオアートセンター東京がデジタル・アーカイヴ化したヴィデオ作品から上映されます。

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Yasunao Tone: Region of Paramedia

January 13 – March 18 2023 at Artists Space, N.Y.
ニューヨークのアーティスツ・スペースで開催される刀根康尚の展覧会関連企画で上映される刀根作品《2,880K=120” 》を当該アーカイヴ作業から提供しました。

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Yeary repport 

We compiled Iimura’s video works as Catalogue raisonné. Title lists are also referred on this web site. Click following PDF file.(details are here.)

​Takahiko IIMURA Video Field Video Tapes Catalog

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A4 、 36P、color / year of production:March 2023 
fee: 1650 yen, Japanese./ English
We provide you Catalogue raisonné of Taka Iimura’s video art works. Through our operation of archiving on his pieces, we found over 60 pieces and details of his life works on video since 1970. Contributed by  Masayuki Kawai, Kentaro Taki, Yuichi Mori(MORI YU GALLERY). You can buy it on this web site. 

Archive list in 2022-2023


Supported by Agency of Cultural Affairs , Government of Japan(2022)

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Anthology Film Archives(N.Y., U.S.A.)

Collaborative Cataloging Japan (U.S.A. )

Keio Art Center  (Tokyo, Japan)

Microscope Gallery N.Y., U.S.A..)

MORI YU GALLERY
(Kyoto, Japan)

Tokyo Photogoraphic Art Museum(Tokyo, Japan)
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