475 Park Ave South, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10016
Monday - Friday
11:00am - 5:00pm
a.k.a. The New American Cinema Group. Est. 1961.
The largest archive and distributor of independent and avant-garde films in the world.
Kuzu (Junk) (1962) 8mm/16mm (blowup), b/w, 10 min. Music: Takehisa Kosugi
AI (Love) (1962) 8mm/16mm (blowup), b/w, 15 min. Music: Yoko Ono
On Eye Rape (1962) 16mm, b/w & color, 10 min., silent
A Dance Party in the Kingdom of Lilliput (1964) 16mm, b/w, 12 min., sound
"From the early sixties; though Japanese, Iimura was well known as one of the first generation of the New York Underground - for many years, Japanese experimental film was "Takahiko Iimura". -- Malcolm Le Grice
"In Junk, surreal imagery is used effectively to dramatize the slow ecological destruction brought about by a wasteful industrialized society." -- Scott Macdonald
"Love stands out in its beauty and originality, a film poem, with no usual pseudo-surrealist imagery. Love is a poetic and sensuous exploration of the body...fluid, direct, beautiful." -- Jonas Mekas
"A Dance Party in the Kingdom of Lilliput may well be one of the first 'Conceptual' films ever made anywhere in the world. It was a rather slow, but clearly defined daily motions of Kazakura, a mysterious underground figure of Japan." -- Nam June Paik
"A playful irony attenuates and lightens the conceptual weight of Iimura's art, always poised between abstract and concrete, Zen spirituality and technology, utmost spareness and complex mechanicalness of seeing." - Bruno Di Marino
For home use only. For institutional purchases, please email filmmakerscoop@gmail.com.
The Film-Makers’ Cooperative is the largest archive and distributor of independent and avant-garde films in the world. Created by artists in 1961 as the distribution branch of the New American Cinema Group, the Coop has more than 5,000 films, videotapes, and DVDs in its collection.
475 Park Ave South, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10016
Monday - Friday
11:00am - 5:00pm