synopsis
The body and sensibility are celebrated by the renowned Japanese avant-garde artist with a poetic montage of the details of muscle and tissue movements, irritating glances at the crevices and vacant lots. In the spirit of abstract documentarism and accompanied by certain music from Yoko Ono, the skin surfaces touch each other in rhythmically composed approximations of crinkles and crumpling.
biography
Japanese New York artist Iimura Takahiko (1937) is a pioneer of experimental film and video in the US and Japan. He has been working with film since the early 1960s, during which time he placed emphasis on pictorial lyricism and poetry. For decades, he has been creating video art and creating structural imagery and conceptual videos. Visitors of the Ji.hlava Festival may have seen his film
Pacific Ocean (1971).
more about film
| director: | Takahiko Iimura |
contact
LUX / Alice Lea / Waterlow Park Centre, Dartmouth Park Hill / N195JF / London / United Kingdom / +44 020 3141 2961 / distribution@lux.org.uk / www.lux.org.ukFilm at festival
| premiere type: | Central European Premiere |
| festival edition: | 2019 |
| section: | Fascinations: Eroticism |
| format: | 16 mm |
| colour: | Black and white |
Info
| director: | Takahiko Iimura |
| original title: | Ai (Love) |
| country: | Japan |
| year: | 1962 |
| running time: | 10 min. |
