Takahiko Iimura: Writing with light
Films and live performance by Takahiko Iimura
Saturday December 10, 19h, Admission $6
MICROSCOPE, 4 Charles Place Bushwick Brooklyn NY 11221
Microscope Gallery is very happy to welcome back from Tokyo Japanese master of experimental cinema Takahiko Iimura. The show will feature the NY premieres of several of Iimura’s works on film, as well as a special Super 8mm performance White Calligraphy, Re-read where Iimura will write with light. Not to be missed.
Programme:
Eye For Eye, Ear For Ear (NY Premiere)
featuring:
- Film Strips I (1967-1970/2009) 12 min, music by Haruyuki Suzuki (2009)
- Film Strips II (1967-70/2009) 13 min, music by Haruyuki Suzuki (2009)
“The best work of Iimura’s middle period is characterized by increasingly formal concerns, concerns most effectively demonstrated by Film Strips I and II (1967-70). Film Strips II […] resulted in an experience which is not only interesting visually, but which is implicitly a powerful record of a painful time and a warning about the future.”
– Scott MacDonald (Afterimage, April, 1978 (The author of “Critical Cinema,” California Univ. Press)
“When I came to the USA in the mid 1960s, it was the high point of the Hippie movement and the black riots. I lived in the East Village in New York, which was a center of the former, and watched TV news of the latter often. These two films, Film Strips I and II, were taken from the scenes respectively, not as a documentary but as an inner report of mine, abstracted yet chaotic.” — Taka Iimura