Takahiko Iimura is one of the most celebrated experimental filmmakers of our time. During the 1960s' explosion of underground cinema in the United States, Iimura, almost alone among his peers in Japan, began making experimental films after reading the news from abroad. His work explores a wide range of subjects and sources, from poetic cinema with Dadaist and Surrealist influences and Absurdist filmic play in the '60s through more formal and conceptual inquiries in the '70s and later years. His sustained exploration of light, space, time, nature and technology has since continued across multiple media-including recent CD-ROMs and DVDs that combine film, video, graphics, text and animation. This selection from Iimura's oeuvre focuses mostly on his output in the '70s: 24 Frames Per Second (1975, 12 min.), Timed 1, 2, 3 (1972, from Models, Reel 1, 11 min.), One Frame Duration (1977, 12 min.), + & - (Plus and Minus) (1973, 26 min.), and I Am (Not) Seen (2003, 5 min., DVD).

In person: Takahiko Iimura

Curated by Adam Hyman, Taka Iimura and Steve Anker.