It saddens me to hear this. Thanks Pip. I only knew Take from Canyon Cinema interactions. He was truly impassioned about his art and his commitment to experimental cinema. Take was a pioneer in experimental cinema and who was part of the Fluxus Movement and often much under appreciated.
Dominic > On Aug 3, 2022, at 1:32 AM, FrameWorks Admin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Friends, I just learned that Taka Iimura passed away on July 31 in Tokyo at > the age of 85. > I am trying to find out more information and will keep you posted. > > Taka was a great friend but also a prolific and important filmmaker and video > artist whose works spanned six decades and ranged from the pictorial to found > footage to scratching to conceptual and performance art and could even be > considered part-Fluxus. He was also an educator and a publisher of his own > writings and films and videos. In 2016 he received a Life Achievement award > from the National Art Center in Tokyo. Many of you know him as a member of > FrameWorks and of film cooperatives including New York Film-Makers’, CJC and > Light Cone in Paris and Lux in London. He distributed his DVDs through > Re:Voir and did performances and exhibitions at Microscope Gallery in New > York. > > He and his wife Akiko lived for many years in New York but moved permanently > back to Tokyo in recent years, into a house in the Koenji district of Tokyo > that had been his father’s business and workshop in the 1930s. This house was > more adapted to be a working studio then a home, and it is full of his > rambling archives of films and tapes and books. On several visits I remarked > that he needed a student intern to help him organize everything but he would > laugh and reassure me that he knew where everything was. However in the past > five years he had serious memory lapses, and I am hoping we can find people > to help Akiko organize and preserve his archive and legacy. > > - Pip Chodorov > > > -- > Frameworks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org -- Frameworks mailing list [email protected] https://mail.film-gallery.org/mailman/listinfo/frameworks_film-gallery.org
