- Interview with Jud Yalkut Interview
Jud Yalkut, an experimental filmmaker whose films and inter-media events have been exhibited at the Everson Museum, discusses his practice working in film and videotape and his collaboration with Nam June Paik beginning in 1965; he mixes film and video through editing, superimposition and generational transfers and employs hand-held camera work, high-speed and time-lapse photography and single-frame techniques. He emphasizes dislocating ordinary perception to create layered, multi-image, non-narrative works—examples include Video Film Concert and the robot sequence in P*AxI-K—and cites influences such as McLuhan, Stan Brakhage and Eisenstein.
- Taka Iimura Interview Interview
Taka Iimura, a Japanese film and video artist who spent more than ten years in the United States, discusses his practice and the independent film/video scene in Japan; his early work includes Junk (Standard 8, 1962) and later pieces include Line A,B,C,D,E (1972, revised 1980), Talking in New York and Talking Picture, and he screened work at gallery 360 in December 1982. The interview addresses influences (Dada/Surrealism, Western underground film), exhibition infrastructure (Image Forum, Seibu studio 200), lack of government subsidies, technical approaches (photographed image, sync sound, direct address) and political activity (demonstrations against the American military treaty).
- The Media World of Takahiko Iimura II Bibliography
The Wedia World of Takahiko Iimura II. Contents follow: I am not Taka Iimura by Carl Eugen Loeffler, (I)/You, DOUBLE DA, MA (and Taka Iimura) by Peter d'Agostino, From Exhibition I [Photo Document], SKY & GROUND, Video: Takahiko Iimura, Poem: Miyuki Ashida, A.I.U.E.O.NN SIX FEATURES, Video: Takahiko…
- Rea Tajiri People
Rea Tajiri, born in Chicago, is a Japanese American video artist and filmmaker who attended California Institute of the Arts and worked as a producer in Los Angeles and New York. Her video work was included in the 1989, 1991 and 1993 Whitney Biennials; her 1991 essay documentary History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige about Japanese American internment premiered at the 1991 Whitney and won the International Documentary Association Distinguished Achievement Award. She made Yuri Kochiyama: Passion for Justice (1993) and Strawberry Fields (shot 1994, completed 1997); she lives in New York.
- Bruce and Norman Yonemoto People
Norman Yonemoto (born 1946, Chicago) and his brother Bruce Yonemoto (born 1949, San Jose) pursued film and art studies; Norman attended UCLA and the American Film Institute Center for Advanced Studies, and Bruce earned a BA from UC Berkeley (1972), studied at Sokei Bijitsu Gakko in Tokyo, and received an MFA from Otis Art Institute (1975). They began collaborating in 1976 on the film Garage Sale and founded Kyo-dai Productions in 1979; their video work has been exhibited and screened at major institutions internationally and they have received NEA grants, the 1993 Maya Deren Award, a 1993 AFI grant, and a 1998 Rockefeller Foundation fellowship.
- Takahiko Iimura People
Takahiko Iimura is a pioneer of Japanese experimental film and video, working in film since 1960 and in video since 1970; his early film Onan won the Special Prize at the Brussels International Experimental Festival in 1964. He moved to the USA in 1966 as a Harvard University International Seminar fellow sponsored by the Asia Foundation and subsequently received numerous fellowships, including the Japan Society, New York (1966–68), the German Academy Exchange Service, Berlin (1973–74, 1992) and the National Endowment for the Arts (1979). He has published multimedia interactive CD-ROMs and DVDs, worked in residence at the Experimental Television Center and the Institute for Electronic Arts, and held major solo exhibitions at institutions such as MoMA (1975, 1981), the Whitney (1981), Centre Pompidou (1977) and Museo Reina Sofía (2000).