The Video and CD-ROM of Taka Iimura
Saturday, March, 25, 2000 8pm- $7
Millennium, 66 East 4th St, New York, N.Y.10003 Tel.212/473-0090
Mostly Time Related Films
Friday, March 31, 2000 9pm- $8
Anthology Film Archives, 32-34 Second Ave.(at Second St.), NewYork, N.Y. 10003, Phone:212-505-5181
Film Performance "Circle and Square"
Tuesday, April 4th, 2000 9pm- $5
The Robert Beck Memorial Cinema,145 Ludlow St, Between Stanton and Rivington St., New York, N.Y. phone:718-622-5360
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The Video and CD-ROM of Taka Iimura
Saturday, March, 25, 2000 8pm.＄7
Millennium, 66 East 4th St, New York, N.Y.10003 Tel.212/473-0090
Taka Iimura, who has worked in film and video since 1960s, will present his most recent works in multimedia, CD-ROMs, at Millennium, New York. Iimura, who is called "an enigmatic, mysterious presence in the New York avantgarde scene" by Jonas Mekas, director of Anthology Film Archives, found CD-ROM as an exciting new media to combine text, graphics, as well as video. The result is a multi-faced experiments linking the media freely within the work. He will talk about the work.
The program:
"A I U E O NN Six Features", video,1993, 8min., color
"Interactive: A I U E O NN Six Features", CD-ROM, 1998-99, color, Digital work: Kazuhiro Asai and Tacora InterMedia. English version: William Thompson
"This is the game that Iimura plays, not only in the installation of the same name, but also again with this CD-ROM. The 'differance' is for him an example of multiculturalism, a connection of unity in diversity, in which Iimura plays with the expressive and indicative function of a sign, in sound and in image" World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam, 1998
"Observer/Observed", video,1975-98, 22min., b/w
"Observer/Observed", and Other Works of Video Semiology, CD-ROM, 1999, b/w, Co-produced with the Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada, and Euphonic Inc.,Tokyo
"Iimura is at his best deconstructing and reconstructing the video apparatus. Elemental and elegant, these works confront issues of language and semiotics through forms of direct address. Incisively presented, this CD-ROM offers a new generation access to classic works of video art and theory" Peter d'Agostino, professor of media arts, Temple University, Philadelphia.
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Mostly Time Related Films
Friday, March 31, 2000 9pm. $8
Anthology Film Archives, 32-34 Second Ave.(at Second St.), New York, N.Y. 10003, Phone:212-505-5181
Taka iimura, who has explored the concept of time in film in 1970s, will present his rarely shown films with a talk on the films. Jonas Mekas, director of Anthology Film Archives, has said that Iimura "contributed decisively to his uncompromizing explorations of cinema's minimalist and conceptual possibities. He has explored this direction of cinema in greater depth than anyone else".
b/w, 8min.49sec., sound
"Timed 1,2,3 "(from Models, Reel 1),1972,b/w,10min.30sec., sound
"Counting 1 To 100 or Xs "(from Models, Reel 2) 1972, b/w,11min. 25sec., silent
"24 Frames Per Second", 1975 revised 1978, b/w, 12min., sound
"Repeated/Reversed Time", 1972 revised 1980, b/w, 9min. sound
"One Frame Duration",1977, b/w & color,12min., sound
"MA:Space/Time in the Garden of Ryoan-Ji", 1989, color,16min., Sound by Takehisa Kosugi
"Though Taka continues to develop a range approaches to film, video and now digital work, this concern with the experience of time, its measured passage and analogy between time and space, has been the main recurring theme at the centre of his work." Malcolm Le Grice
"As the title suggests, Models (1972) defines the general concerns which characterize Iimura's nonphotographic films. The most important of these concerns is his exploration of the real space and time of film experience. Models presents eight different forms of this exploration, each of which involves a different set of basic variables." Scott MacDonald
"MA: Space/Time-In the Garden of Ryoan-ji (1989) - focus on the Eastern concept of MA, of space and time as a conceptual and perceptual unity ... and a fine introduction to a classic Japanese garden and the concept of MA, and to central dimensions of Iimura's earlier work." Scott MacDonald
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Film Performance "Circle and Square"
Tuesday, April 4th, 2000 9pm. $5
The Robert Beck Memorial Cinema,145 Ludlow St, Between Stanton and Rivington St., New York, N.Y. phone:718-622-5360
Taka iimura will present a rarely seen film performance "Circle and Square" together with a film "1 to 60 Seconds". Jonas Mekas, director of Anthology Film Archives, has said that Iimura "contributed decisively to his uncompromizing explorations of cinema's minimalist and conceptual possibilities. He has explored this direction of cinema in greater depth than anyone else".
Program:
Film performance: "Circle and Square"(1982)
When I first performed the piece in the gallery space of Millennium, New York, l982, I used two projectors facing far apart and a loop film was hung between them threading to one of the projector. I stand in the middle with a film puncher punching holes(circles) on the film as many as possible which were projected on one side of wall, and on another wall a square frame was projected without film. Now for RBMC theater I will use only one projector and will do the same performance. The difference is that in Millennium "Circle and Square" happened simulteneously on both walls, but here in RBNC theater it will happen only before and after with one projector. You will see this with a surprise if you come to RBMC theater. (T.I.)
Film "1 to 60 Seconds"(1973)
"In 1 to 60 Seconds Iimura does an extrordinary thing: he abstracts time from any concrete associations, seems to put it on the screen and there you sit looking at (or for) it, experiencing it. The film is all black leader except for the numbers 1 to 60 that apper individually in sequence to indicate the amount of time in seconds that each of them followed one second leter by a number or numbers indicatin the total amount of time that has thus far transpired. So at each juncture you know beforehand how much time awaits you before the next and how much is behind you, and then it's just you and the black screen. And thereafter many things happen: you attempt to experience, say, twenty one seconds so accurately you will be ready for the 22, or you become impatient and bored, or you just feel time, fell the ongoingness. The film's as varied as time (for you) is and can be." Paul Poggiali, The Soho Weekly News, New York, 1974
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