1) Eye For Eye, Ear For Ear
2) Talking Picture (The Structure of Film Viewing)
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On the first, iimura wrote:
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.(T.I.)
This DVD is a compilation of Film Strips, I and II, both were produced in 1966-70. and have been in silent, but now with new music of Haruyuki Suzuki.
Scott MacDonald, film reviewer, has written:
"the best work of Iimura's middle period is characterized by increasingly formal concerns, concerns most effectively demonstrated by Film Strips I and II (1967-70). Film Strips II ... resulted in an experience which is not only interesting visually, but which is implicitly a powerful record of a painful time and a warning about the future."- Scott MacDonald (Afterimage, April, 1978) (The author of "Critical Cinema," California Univ. Press)
of the second, Aaron Michael Kerner(San Francisco State University) wrote:
"In this collection of videos, Talking Picture (The Structure of Film Viewing) and Shadowman (The Structure of Seeing and Hearing),Takahiko Iimura presents a series of mind-twisting videos, meditating on the experience of watching film/video, and of seeing and being seen. Prodded by a succession of riddles, the videos are lined with humor…, Iimura touches on a range of significant philosophical questions about linguistics and the nature of representation itself. While watching these videos one is likely to entertain comparisons to Plato's Allegory of the Cave, Ren Magritte's "This is not a pipe," and the analytic tradition of semiotics. Iimura also draws some tantalizing parallels between some of these Western philosophical inquiries with Asian concepts of representation; for instance, in Shadowman, Iimura observes that the Japanese word for film, eiga, literally means "reflected picture," the kanji character coming from the Chinese literally means "electric shadow picture," pointing back to "Plato's Cave." - Aaron Michael Kerner , San Francisco State University