Director: Takahiko Iimura
Year: 1982-1994
Length: 14 mins
Format: NTSC | R0
Colour: Colour
Aspect Ratio: 1.33: 1
Certificate: E
Synopsis
"Combining the comical with the absurd, I created six funny faces, which were manipulated by System G (Real Time Three Dimensional Texture Mapping developed by Sony), to animate the images of Japanese vowels in Japanese and Roman alphabet. The concept is developed from Jacques Derrida's "Differance"(with ?a') in which the difference of "image", "letter" and "voice" works in space and movement. Thus six images of "AIUEONN" differ and delay with the letters and the voices, creating an example of multiculturalism."
Takahiko Iimura.
"Iimura deconstructs our coherence as he shifts between the English Roman alphabet and Japanese characters, interjects spoken Japanese, and manipulates the computer images of his features. The images often take on geometrical shapes, others recall the classical images from Japanese woodcuts of Samurai warrior grimace."
Robert West, Curator, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, USA
"A very simple but also striking statement about the arbitrariness of semiotic relations."
Fred Andersson, Leornado Digital Review, MIT Press
"The ?differance' is for him an example of multiculturalism, a connection of unity in diversity, in which Iimura plays with the expressive and indicative function of a sign, in sound an image."
Film Listing
- AIUEONN (Full version, 1993, 7 mins)
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Real Face Version (2 mins)
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Yellow Face Version (2 mins)
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Multiple Face Version (2 mins)
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Remix Version (1 mins)
Related
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An Interview with Takahiko Iimura by Damien Sanville & Niina Hartikainen
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I saw my first Iimura film in 1964... by Jonas Mekas
