BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Anguilla X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Anguilla BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST DTSTART:19700101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5831649:Event:31657 DTSTAMP:20260408T182936Z SUMMARY:Takahiko Imura // Screen Play // Microscope Gallery DESCRIPTION:We are very pleased to welcome back to Microscope Japanese film/video pioneer Takahiko Iimura – whose work is currently on vie w at the MoMA’s exhibition Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde th rough February 25th. This special one-night event features the US prem iere of Iimura’s 1963 16mm film performance Screen Play and a scre ening of his Early Film Poems, a collection of 6 works made between 1962 and 1971 (shot on 16mm, 8mm and video), bearing witness to the ar tist’s early interest in Dadaist poetry. New soundtracks by Akiko Sa mukawa and Haruyuki Suzuki now accompany several of the films.\nIn Sc reen Play - which originally premiered in1963, at Sogetsu Hall in To kyo – the film Iro (Color) (16mm, color, 1962) is projected direct ly onto the back of a performer whose clothes iimura gradually cuts aw ay along the borders of the image. In this work, Iimura frees the proj ection screen from the rigid structure of the traditional screening by intervening on the projectable surface itself, allowing the light to pierce through the fabric and touch the skin of the body.\nIimura says about the projected film:\n“I filmed the chemical reactions that em erged when I dropped some paint into oil from a close distance, maybe from ten centimetres away. These colours exploded and created waves, a nd for at the end I heated it up from underneath until it went black. Nekes once filmed an operation and projected that onto his stomach, bu t that was done in 1965 so I was a bit earlier.”\n \nPROGRAM:\nLIVE FILM PERFORMANCE\nScreen Play (originally 1963), about 15min.The fi lm Color (1962) is projected onto the back of a performer who is sat faced away from the audience whilst another performer cuts the sitter ’s suit in the shape of the screen. The film, that slowly reveals it self against the skin of the performer, is an abstract film that uses a mixture of colored paint that is heated from underneath. Music by Ya sunao Tone (Sitter – Andrea Monti; Frame cutter – Taka Iiimura)\n  \nSCREENING PROGRAM\nEarly Film Poems16mm & 8mm transferred to DVD, 6 films, 44 minutes\n \nThe Pacific Ocean (1971), 7min. music: Aki ko Samukawa (2012)\nKiri (The Fog) (1970), 3min. silent\nHoney Moon (1966) 7min. music: Akiko Samukawa(2012)\nI Saw the Shadow (1966)  7min. silent\nDada 62 (1962) 10min. music: Haruyuki Suzuki (2012)\n\ nFor more information visit http://conectom.leimay.org/events/takahiko -imura-screen-play-microscope-gallery DTSTART;TZID=America/Anguilla:20121124T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Anguilla:20121124T220000 CATEGORIES:"video performance" LOCATION:Microscope Gallery WEBSITE:http://www.microscopegallery.com/?page_id=4744 URL:http://www.microscopegallery.com/?page_id=4744 CONTACT: ORGANIZER: ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg":http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/ file/get/111735480?profile=original ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Raul Zbe ngheci":http://conectom.leimay.org/profile/RaulZbengheci END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR