{"identifier":"TI-Eye_6312241266112","browse_author":"Haruyuki Suzuki (Composer), Takahiko Iimura (Director) and Takahiko Iimura (Proprietor (Publisher Bloomsbury Video))","subscription_list":["bvl_filmmedia"],"titleByTitle":"Yes","isbn":9781350903715,"description":"Film Strips I and II\n \n \"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.\" - Takahiko Iimura Music: Haruyuki Suzuki (2009) Since the 1960s, Takahiko Iimura\u2019s explorations of the moving image have probed the relationship between media, time and language and have strived to redefine the exhibition of cinema as a mode of performance. He has worked closely with the giants of experimental film such as members of the Hi-Red Centre and Fluxus, Yoko Ono, Jonas Mekas, John Cage, Stan Brakhage and Stan Vanderbeek. His uncompromising work, here presented on film, bridges boundaries between film and performance art. \n \"Although Taka was and continues to be an active part of the New York avant-garde scene, he always remained an enigmatic, mysterious presence, pursuing his own unique route through the very center of the avant-garde cinema. While the intensity and the fire of the American avant-garde film movement inspired him and attracted him, his Japanese origins contributed decisively to his uncompromising explorations of cinema's minimalist and conceptualist possibilities. He has explored this direction of cinema in greater depth than anyone else.\" \u2013Jonas Mekas \n \u201cFrom the early sixties, though Japanese, Iimura was well known as one of the first generation of the New York Underground ... For many years, Japanese experimental film was Takahiko Iimura\u201d - Malcolm Le Grice Language - English","videoId":6312241266112,"browse_view":"contentTypeBrowsePageIndexView","subscription":"bvl_filmmedia","title":"Eye for Eye, Ear for Ear","xml_source":"bvl_filmmedia_video-vra.xml","browse_search":"TI-Eye","videoPoster":"https://cf-images.eu-west-1.prod.boltdns.net/v1/static/4171818645001/102672e1-3484-4ef3-a7b8-61cb62970c9a/959f9940-e685-4da9-8617-9f39d2c86c96/1280x720/match/image.jpg","facets":"experimentalFilm , Experimental film , filmAndCinema , Film and Cinema , abstract , Abstract , _19601969 , 1960\u20131969 , _19001999 , 1900\u20131999 , made_19601969 , 1960\u20131969 , made_20002009 , 2000\u20132009 , made_19001999 , 1900\u20131999 , made_2000Present , 2000\u2013present , english , English , northAmerica , North America , unitedStates , United States , origin_japan , Japan , origin_asia , Asia , video , Video , artsAndLiterature , Arts and literature ,","contenttypeorder":3,"date_of_publication":2009,"productname":"bvl_all","id_search":"TI-Eye","facet":["_19001999","_19601969","abstract","artsAndLiterature","english","experimentalFilm","filmAndCinema","made_19001999","made_19601969","made_20002009","made_2000Present","northAmerica","origin_asia","origin_japan","unitedStates","video"],"contentType":"video","authors":"Haruyuki Suzuki~Takahiko Iimura~Takahiko Iimura"}