In London, three performance/screenings

Takahiko iimura is having three performance/screening/workshop/lectures
in London from April 20th, 2010.Due to the cancellation of the flight by volcano eruption, the performance and the worshop were postponed to October, 2010:http://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film-program/5-october-2010-seeing-hearing-speaking-the-films-of-takahiko-iimura-live-performance.html

First, at Close up with screening/performance on April 20th, who has distributed iimura DVDs past few years besides Lux.
http://www.close-upvideos.com/film-program

Second, at no/w/here with a workshop on April 21st called "How To Make Time Visible (without Photography)"
http://www.no-w-here.org.uk/index.php?cat=3&subCat=docdetail&id=225->http://www.no-w-here.org.uk/index.php?cat=3&subCat=docdetail&id=225

Third, at St. Martin School of Art, which has been a major school in London having experimental film since 1960s,with the theme of "Light Writing."
Documentation of the performance White Calligraphy Re-Read by Takahito Iimura on Thursday 7 October 2010, Window Gallery, Central St Martins School of Art and Design. Presented as part of the Light Writing animated text and performance event-based research project.:http://www.studycollection.co.uk/intro.html

More the details are following:


20 April 2010: Observer/Observed - The Films of Takahiko Iimura + Circle and Square
Time: 8pm. Doors open at 7.45pm
Venue: The Working Men’s Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, London E2 6NB
Ticket: £5/£3 to Close-Up members

This programme is a survey of the work of Japan’s most influential experimental filmmaker, Takahiko Iimura, from his earliest 1960s experiments and conceptual videos to his later videos on semiology and identity. We are delighted that Iimura will be in attendance at this event to perform “Circle & Square” live and participate in a Q&A.

Wednesday 21st April, 7-10pm at no.w.here:
HOW TO MAKE TIME VISIBLE IN FILM (WITHOUT PHOTOGRAPHY)
During this workshop Iimura will be exploring how participants can make time visible in film, (without photography), using markers of different colors and sizes, long and fat needles, clear and black 16mm film. The workshop will include screenings of original Iimura prints including:
- 24 Frames Per Second (1975)
- One Frame Duration (1977)
- 2 Min. 46 Sec. 16 Frames (100 Feet) (1972)
- Timed 1, 2, 3 (1972)
- Timing 1,2,3,4 (1972)
- Timelength 1,2,3,4 (1972)
- 1 To 60 Seconds (1973)

Thursday 22nd April, 4-7pm at Central St. Martin’s College of Art:
TAKAHIKO IIMURA “LIGHT WRITING”
Free - but spaces limited please RSVP Duncan White: d.white(at)csm.arts.ac.uk
A screening of films and videos that are text-based or engage with the relationship between language and perception by Takahiko Iimura - the screening is part of “Light Writing” a research project based at Central St Martins. Takahiko Iimura will be present to discuss the works following the programme.
- White Calligraphy (1967, 14 mins)
- Performance / Myself (Or Video Identity) (1972-1995, 29 mins)
- Observer/Observed And Other Works Of Video Semiology (1976, 22 mins)
- Seeing / Hearing / Speaking (2002, 33 mins)
- John Cage Performs James Joyce (1985, 15 mins)