Takahiko Iimura
Born in Tokyo 1937
Lives and works New York, NY/Tokyo, Japan
Education
BA Keio University, Tokyo, Japan 1959
Selected Solo Exhibitions
“Space in Time: Experimental Film & Video Art”, Mori Yu Gallery, Tokyo, 2016/17
“Takahiko Iimura: Seeing Double”, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2016 “
Takahiko Iimura”, Lifetime Achievement Award from Cultural Ministry of Japan, National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan, 2016
“AIUEONN: Three Dimension”, M2 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2014
“Takahiko Iimura: Between the Frames”, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2011
“HEARING/SPEAKING”, agnes b. Skyline, Paris, France, 2005
“AIUEONN: Six Features”, galerie du jour, agnes b. Paris, France, 2005
“Takahiko Iimura: This is a Camera Which Shoots This”, El Huis Gallery, Gent, Belgium, 2005
“Takahiko Iimura Retrospective”, Galerie National du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France, 1999 Galerie J&J Donguy, Paris, France, 1999
The Institute of Japanese Culture, Rome, Italy 1997 “Takahiko Iimura”, The Kitchen, New York, NY, 1996
Hiroshima Contemporary Art Museum, Hiroshima, Japan, 1996 Landes Museum, Linz, Austria, 1996
“Meta Media: Takahiko Iimura Media Installation”, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan, 1995
“Takahiko Iimura: Film & Video”, Galerie DAAD, Berlin, Germany 1992
Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan, 1990 Media Gallery, San Francisco, California, 1987
Ted Greenwald Gallery, New York, NY, 1987
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan, 1985
The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan, 1983
Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 1983
“Shigeko Kubota/Taka Iimura: New Video”, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1979
Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan, 1982Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada, 1978
Vehicle Gallery, Montreal, Canada, 1978
Apple Gallery, New York, NY, 1977
“Galerie 23”, Galerie 23, Paris, France, 1974
Backer Gallery, Bochum, Germany, 1973 Lenbachhaus Stadtische Galerie, Munich, Germany, 1973
Selected Group Exhibitions
“Before Projection: Video Sculpture 1974-1995”, SculptureCenter, New York, 2018
“A Colossal World: Japanese Artists and New York: 1950s to Present”, White Box Gallery, New York, NY 2018
“Before Projection: Video Sculpture 1974-1995”, MIT List Visual Arts Centre, Cambridge, MA 2018
“Expanded Cinema Revisited”, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan 2017
“Dreamlands: Expanded – Takahiko Iimura / Joel Schlemowitz”, “Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905-2016”, Whitney Museum, 2016
“Throwing Shadows: Japanese Expanded Cinema in the Time of Pop”, Tate Modern, London, UK, 2016
“Words as Doors: In Language, Art, Film”, Kuenstlerhaus KM, Halle fuer Kunst & Medien, Graz, Austria, 2014
“Now Japan”, Kunsthal KAdE, Amserfoot, Netherlands, 2013/2014
“Tokyo 1955-70: A New Avant-Garde”, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, 2012/13
“Independence”, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, 2010
“Zelluloid: Film Ohne Kamera (Celluloid: Cameraless Film)”, Shirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany 2010
“Lightwriting”, Banner Repeater, London, UK, 2010
“Lightwriting”, Window Gallery, Martins School of Art, London, UK, 2010
“First Generation: Art of the Moving Image (1963 – 1986)”, Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, Span, 2006/2007
“Vital Signs”, Maya Stendhal Gallery, New York, 2005
“The Japanese Filmmaker Takahiko Iimura”, Galerie Thomas Bernard- Cortex Athletico, Bordeaux, France, 2005
“Cosign02 (Computational Semiotics for Games and New Media)”, Augsburg University, Augsburg, Germany, 2002
“ISEA (International Symposium for Electronic Arts)”, Nagoya, Japan, 2002
“8mm Film Festival”, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California, 2001
“Enclosed and Enchanted”, Museum of Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, London, UK, 2000
“Big As Life, An American History of 8mm Film”, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2000
“The American Century, Part II”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1999
“Contact Zone, The Art of CD-ROM”, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1999
Rockefeller Center Digital Video Wall, curated by Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, 1997
“Body & Image,” Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya, Japan, 1994
“ART ON FILM/FILM ON ART,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, 1993
“Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky,” Guggenheim Soho, New York, NY, 1994/95
“Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky,” Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, 1994
“Body & Image”, Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya, Japan, 1994
“Video Sculpture,” Kunstverein, Cologne/Kongresshalle, Berlin, Germany, 1990 “Minimalism Now”, I.C.P., New York, NY, 1990
“Video From Japan”, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, 1987
“Video (1984): Political Works and “Talking to Myself”, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY 1984
“Video Art: A History”, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY, 1983
“Film as Installation II”, MoMA PS1, New York, NY 1983
“1960s”, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 1983
“Whitney Biennial”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1981
“Video (Winter 1979-1980)”, MoMA PS1, New York, NY, 1980
“Special Projects (Winter 1979)”, MoMA PS1, New York, NY, 1979
“Ideas at the Idea Warehouse”, MoMA PS1, New York, NY, 1975
“Mainichi Contemporary Art Exhibition”, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 1971 “Wandering Concert”, Goethe Institute, Tokyo, Japan, 1970
Goethe Institute, Tokyo, Japan, 1963
Selected Solo Screenings, Performances, and Retrospectives
“Takahiko Iimura: Movie and Performances”, Eye Film Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2014 “Observer/ Observed”, no.w.here, London, UK, 2014
“Takahiko Iimura: Live Augmented Reality Performance”, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2014
“16mm Films by Takahiko Iimura”, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI, 2013
“Takahiko Iimura: Screening & Performance”, Filmmakers Cooperative, New York, NY, 2013
“Circle & Square”, performance, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2011
“Takahiko Iimura: Films / Video / Performance (1972-2009)”, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2011
“Film/Video Works by Takahiko Iimura” (retrospective), San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA, 2009
Special Event w/ Experimental Filmmaker Iimura Takahiko, Auditorium, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale, New Haven, CT, 2007
“Art Cinema OFFoff”, Gent Film Festival, Gent, Belgium, 2005
Cinema Spoutnik, Geneva, Switzerland, 2005
“An Evening with Takahiko Iimura”, Pacific Film Archive, Berkley, California, 2004
Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY, 2004
Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2004
Kala Art Institute, Berkley, California, 2004
Musashino Art University, Kyoto, Japan, 2004
Kyoto Municipal University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan, 2004
“Plural Dimensions of Performance: Takahiko Iimura”, Gallery Surge, Tokyo, Japan, 2003
Kobe Art Village Center, Kobe, Japan, 2003 Lux, London, UK, 2003
Cinema La Clef, Paris, France, 2003
Tokyo Polytechnic University, Tokyo, Japan, 2003
Lund University, Lund, Sweden, 2003
Laboratorio Artealameda, Mexico City, Mexico, 2001
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 2001
Dayton Art Center, Dayton, Ohio, 2001 Art Complex, Kyoto, Japan, 2001
Carnegie Mellon University, and Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2001
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2001
Nagoya City Archive, Nagoya, Japan, 2001
The Kitchen, New York, NY, 2000
Millennium, New York, NY, 2000
Reina Sofia National Museum of Art, Madrid, Spain, 2000
Barcelona Contemporary Museum, Barcelona, Spain, 2000
The Kitchen, New York, NY, 1999
Galerie National du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France, 1999
Galerie J&J Donguy, Paris, France, 1999
Hillside Forum, Tokyo, Japan, 1998
The Lux Centre, London, UK, 1998
Filmmuseum, Munich, Germany, 1998
Landmark Hall, Yokohama, Japan, 1998
The Institute of Japanese Culture, Rome, Italy 1997
Millennium, New York, NY, 1997
The Kitchen, New York, NY, 1996
Hiroshima Contemporary Art Museum, Hiroshima, Japan, 1996
Landes Museum, Linz, Austria, 1996
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan, 1995
Museum of Sound and Image, San Paulo, Brazil, 1992
Arizona State University, Tucson, Arizona, 1992
Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY, 1990
Cinematheque, San Francisco, California, 1987
Museum Square, Osaka, Japan, 1985
Image Forum, Tokyo, Japan, 1982
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, 1981
Boston Flm/Video Foundation, Boston, Maryland, 1981
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium, 1980
Long Beach Museum, Los Angeles, California, 1980
Honolulu Art Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1980
Austrian Film Museum, Vienna, Austria, 1979
Media Art Center, Buffalo, New York, 1979 “Japanese Avant-Garde Films”, Carnegie Art Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1978
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, 1977
Institute of Contemporary Art Center, Antwerp, Belgium, 1977
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1976
Collective for Living Cinema, New York, New York, 1976
U.C.Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California, 1976
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, 1975
Anthology Film Archives, New York, New York, 1975
Millennium, New York, New York, 1974
Cinematheque Francaise, Paris, France, 1974
Arsenal Kinematek, Berlin, Germany, 1973
Millennium, New York, New York, 1972
Japanese House, New York, New York, 1972
The Kitchen, New York, New York, 1972
Pacific Film Archive, San Francisco, California, 1971
UCLA Film Center, Los Angeles, California, 1971
Sogetsu Cinematheque, Tokyo, Japan, 1970
Scorpio Theater, Tokyo, Japan, 1970
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK, 1969
Royal Film Archive, Brussels, Belgium, 1969
Canyon Cinematheque, San Francisco, California, 1968
Judson Gallery, New York, New York, 1968
Filmmakers’ Cinematheque, New York, New York, 1967
Gate Theater, New York, New York, 1967
Filmmakers’ Cinematheque, New York, New York, 1966
Black Gate Intermedia, New York, New York, 1966
Sogetsu Cinematheque, Tokyo, Japan, 1965 “DADA 62”, Naiqua Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 1963
Selected Group Screenings, Festivals, and Performances
“Projection Instructions: An Evening of Expanded Cinema from the Collection of the Film-makers’ Cooperative”, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2016
“Pliure, Epilogue (La bibliotheque, l’univers)”, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France, 2015
“Video Art As Live Performance”, Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 2015
“MoMA Film Screenings: An Evening w/ Yoko Ono and Alexandra Monroe”, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 2015
“Alternate Visions: Avant-Garde Cinema”, PFA Theater: Pacific Film Archive, Berkley, California, 2014
“Japan Film Independents, 1964”, Filmmakers Cooperative, New York, NY, 2014
“Kinema Nippon”, MoMA, New York, NY, 2014
“Tokyo: Experiments in Music and Performance”, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 2013
“Breaking the Plane”, L.A. Filmforum at Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, California 2013
“Tomomi Adachi and Takahiko Iimura: Films and Performances”, SAIC, Chicago, Illinois, 2013
“Fragments of Japanese Underground Cinema 1960-1974”, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California, 2013
“Art Thrill You”, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 2012
“Kinema Nippon- Moving Images from Japan”, Image Forum, Tokyo, Japan, 2012
“Radical Communication: Japanese Video Art, 1968-1988”, The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA, 2007
“Japanese Experimental Film and Video”, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY, 2005
New York Video Festival, Lincoln Center, New York, NY, 2005
“John Cage Film, Video, Music Festival”, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY, 2004
Recontres Int’l Paris/ Berlin, Paris France, Berlin, Germany, 2004
Edith-Ruth-fur Medien Kunst. Oldenburg, Germany, 2003
“Japanese Film and Video”, Millennium, New York, 2003
“Calculated Cinema”, Pacific Film Archive, Berkley, CA, 2002
“File 2002”, Electronic Language International Festival), Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2002
Japan Society Image Art and Science Conference, Tokyo, Japan, 2002
WRO Int’l Media Art, Wroclaw, Poland, 2001
Digital Media Festival, Philippines University, Manila, Philippines, 2001
Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston, United Kingdom, 2001
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California, 2001
Netmage, Bologna, Italy, 2000
ISEA 2000, Paris, France, 2000
d’Lux media arts, Sydney Film Festival, Sydney, Australia, 2000
Rio Int’l Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1997
Mito Art Museum, Mito, Japan, 1997 Sakura City Museum, Sakura, Japan, 1996 “New Vision”, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 1996
New York Festival, New York, NY, 1995
Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, Korea, 1995
Performance Festival, Dusserldorf, Germany, 1995
“Hearing Art”, Center for Contemporary Arts, Warsaw, Poland, 1992
“Adam and Eve,” The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan 1992 “John Cage Memorial,” Ohnoya Hall, Tokyo, Japan, 1992
“Millennium 25 Years,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 1991
“New Art Film,” Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York/Musee de Louvre, Paris, France, 1990
“New Films From Japan,” Japan Society, New York, NY, 1989
“Experimental Film, 1970s,” Collective for Living Cinema, New York, NY, 1983
“Bijyutsu Gekijyo,” Hiyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan, 1982
“Cinema Experimental Japonaise”, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1979
“Video Wochen, Essen 79,” Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany, 1979
“Recent Japanese Avantgarde Film,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 1978
“New Japanese Avant-garde Film”, Millennium Film Workshop, New York, NY, 1978
Japan, Film, and Video, Media Center, New York State University, Buffalo, NY, 1977
“Video Art”, Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia. Philadelphia, PA, 1976
Iconologie des Cinema, Athene Francaise, Tokyo, Japan, 1976
“Video Week”, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK, 1975
Germain Gallery, Paris, France, 1975
“Video/Art”, Musee d’Art Modern, Paris, France, 1974
“Japan: Art and Tradition,” Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany, 1974
“Open Circuit”, Everson Museum of Art, New York, NY, 1973
“Aktionen der Avantgarde,” Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, Germany, 1983
“Second Annual Video” Festival, The Kitchen, New York, NY, 1973
“New Japanese Film”, Millennium, New York, NY, 1972
“First Video Festival”, The Kitchen. New York, NY, 1972
“Eighth Avantgarde Festival”, Armory Hall, New York, NY, 1971
“Third Crosswalk Intermedia”, Asahi Shinbun-sha Hall, Tokyo, Japan, 1970
“Experiment,” Kunthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany, 1969
New York Film Festival, Lincoln Center, New York, NY, 1967
“Japanese Experimental Film”, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 1966
“Japanese Experimental Film”, The Movie, San Francisco, CA, 1965
“Japan Film Independents”, Kinokuniya Hall, Tokyo, Japan, 1964
“Brussels International Experimental Film Festival”, Brussels (Award, Special Prize for Onan), Brussels, Belgium, 1963
Selected Institutional Collections
Archivio Storico della Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Everson Museum of Art, Buffalo, NY
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
Metropolitan Museum of the Art, New York
Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan
Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, Spain
Museumsverein Aachen, Aachen, Germany
Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
Royal Belgique Film Archive, Brussels
Tatsumi Hijikata Memorial Hall, Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Whitney Museum of American Art, Permanent Art Collection, New York
Awards
Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cultural Ministry of Japan, 2015
Honorable Mention, Video, Seeing. Hearing/Speaking (2002), New Arts Program (NAP), Lehigh Valley and Berks, Pennsylvania, 2003
Director’s Citation Award, Black Maria Film Festival, Jersey City, New Jersey, 2002
Bronze Prize, New York Expo Festival, New York, New York, 2001
Award, Thaw 01 Festival, Iowa, 2001
Award, New Arts Program (NAP), Lehigh Valley and Berks, Pennsylvania, 2001
Director’s Citation Award, Black Maria Film Festival, Jersey City, New Jersey, 1999
Grand Prize, Rough and Ruined International Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada, 1997
Honorable Mention Award, Columbus International Film and Video Festival, Columbus, Ohio, 1996
Finalists Award, New York Film Festival for AIUEONN Six Features, 1995
Third Place Award, Short Attention Span Film/ Video Festival for AIUEONN Six Features, San Francisco, California, 1994
Director’s Citation Honor, Athens Film/ Video Festival for AIUEONN Six Features, Ohio, 1994
Rusting Ear Prize, WRO Sound Basis Visual Art Festival for AIUEONN Six Features, Wroclaw, Poland, 1993
Best Five, Festival Mudial do MInuto for AIUEONN Six Features, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1993
Architecture Prize, UNESCO Festival International Du Film D’Art, Montreal, Canada, 1991
Golden Gate Prize, San Francisco International Film Festival, San Francisco, California,1987
Grand Prize, Black Maria Film Festival, Jersey City, New Jersey, 1986
Special Prize, Brussels International Experimental Film Festival, Brussels, Belgium, 1964
Fellowships and Artist Residencies Kala Art Institute, Berkley, California, 2003
Rockefeller Study & Conference Center, Como, Italy, The Rockefeller Foundation, 2001
Institute for Electronic Arts, Alfred University, New York, 2001
The New York State Council for Arts, New York, 2001
Valparaiso Foundation, Mojacar, Spain, 2000
Asahi Shimbun Foundation, Tokyo, Japan 2000
Pola Art Foundation, Tokyo, Japan, 1999
Fondation Franco Japonaise Sasakawa, Tokyo, Japan, 1999
Great Britain-Sasakawa Foundation, Tokyo, Japan, 1998
Banff Art Centre, Banff, Canada, 1998
Nomura Cultural Foundation, Tokyo, 1997
Taikou Foundation, Nagoya, 1997, 1999
Japan Art Funds, Tokyo, Japan, 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2003
Saison Foundation, Tokyo, Japan, 1991
Japan Foundation, Tokyo, Japan, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1995, 1999
New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, 1986
Australia-Japan Foundation, Tokyo, Japan, 1984
Canada Counsil, Ottawa, Canada, 1981
National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C., 1979
Creative Artists Program, New York, 1976
Deutschen Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), Berlin, Germany, 1973-74, 1992
Japan Society, New York, New York, 1969
Asian Foundation/Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1966
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Commission, “Ma: Space/Time in the Garden of Ryoan-ji”, New York, 1989
Selected Catalogs
Huldisch, Henriette, Before Projection: Video Sculpture 1974-1995 at MIT List, Immer Verlag GmbH, May 2018
Chong, Doryun, Hayashi, Michio, Yoshitake, Mika, Sas Miryam, Tokyo 1955-70: A New Avant-Garde, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, 2012
Zelluloid: Film ohne Kamera (Celluloid: Cameraless Film), edited by Esher Schlicht/Max Hollein, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, 1996
Meta Media: Takahiko Iimura Media Installation, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan 1995
Mekas, Jonas, Takahiko Iimura: Film and Video, Anthology Film Archives, 1990
1981 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1981
Hanhardt, John, Shigeko Kubota / Taka Iimura: New Video, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 1979
Art Video Confrontation 74, ARC 2-C.N.A.A.V., Musée d’art moderne , Paris, France, 1974
Actionen der Avant Garde Berlin 1973 (Actions of the Avant Garde Berlin 1973), ed. Neue Berliner Kunstverein, Akadamie der Kunst, Berlin, 1973
Selected Publications
Randi, Flavia (editor), Collected notes on underground cinema, art, and performance 1964-2014, translated by Victoria De Zanche, CLEUP, Padova, Italy, 2018
Bonet, Eugeni (editor), “Video Writings by Artists (1970-1990)”, Mousse #6, Mousse Publishing, Milan, Italy, 2018
Ross, Julien, “Expanded Cinema: Curating Problems”, Preservation, Radicalism, and the Avant-Garde Canon, Ferreboeuf, R., Noble, F., Plunkett, T. (Eds.), Springer, 2016
Meigh-Andrews, Chris, A History of Video Art, 2nd edition, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2014
Kerner, Aaron, “Takahiko Iimura’s Butoh films: Cine-Dance in Anma (The Massseurs) and Rose Color Dance”, Positions, Volume 21, Issue 3, Duke University Press, Summer 2013
Meigh-Andrews, Chris, “An Interview with Takahiko Iimura”, Moving Image Review and Journal (MIRAJ), Vol1, Issue 2, Sept-Oct 2010
Iimura, Takahiko, The Collected Writings of Takahiko Iimura, Wildside Press, May 31, 2007
Meigh-Andrews, Chris, A History of Video Art, Berg Publishers, 2006
Barbar, Stephen, Projected Cities: Cinema and Urban Space, Reaktion Books, 2004
Kacunko, Slavic, Culture as Capital, Verlag Berlin, 2005
Mosher, Michael Rl, “Seeing/Hearing/Speaking Takahiko Iimura”, Leonardo, Volume 37, Issue 1, pp.81-82, The MIT Press, February 2004
Iimura, Takahiko, “A Note for MA: Space/Time in the Garden of Ryoan-Ji, by Takahiko Iimura, Millennium Film Journal No. 38, (Spring 2002), New York, 2002
Andersson, Fred, “Takahiko Iimura – Film et Video (review)” Leonardo, The MIT Press, Volume 34, Number 4, pp. 386-387, August 2001
Monroe, Alexandra, Japanese Art After 1945: Scream Against the Sky, Harry N. Abrams, New York, NY, 1996
McDonald, Scott, A Critical Cinema: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers, University of California Press, 1988
Iimura, Takahiko, “On Film Installation”, Millennium Film Journal, Vol. 1, No. 2. pp. 74-76, Millennium Film Workshop, New York, 1978
Iimura, Takahiko, 2 diagrams in Radical Software, Vol. 1, no.4, p. 32, 1971