● Saturday, March 24, 2007 8pm. at Millennium ・・・・・・・・・・・・・・ The filmaker in person. Takahiko Iimura has been a pioneer Japanese artist of experimental film and video since 1960. Residing in both Tokyo and New York, Iimura has had numerous exhibitions in Japan, the US, and Europe. One of his early films, ONAN, was awarded Special Prize at the legendary Brussels International Experimental Festival. Recently, he has been working with computers, publishing multimedia CDROMs and DVDs of his films, videos, graphics, texts, as well as photographic works. Perhaps the most enigmatic figure in avant-garde cinema/video, TAKAHIKO IIMURA mediates Zen spirituality and technology with playful irony.(from the program note written by Millennium) This program will be composed of a selection of TAKA IIMURA's very earliest works including, EXPERIMENTS IN NEW YORK - NEW YORK SCENES (10 min.-1967), NEWYORK HOT SPRINGS (11 min.-1984), TALKING IN NEW YORK (8 min.-1981), and FILMMAKERS (28 min.-1966-68).
Millennium, 66 East 4th Street, Between 3rd and 2nd Avenue, New York, 10003 Tel: 212-673-0090 Entrance $8 Subway: #6 to Astor place, walk down 3rd Ave. to 4thSt., turn left, in the middle of the block, south side.