Lee Stabert introduces Masanori Ōe, a key artist for our Community of Images exhibition and for counterculture filmmaking in both the US and Japan. A filmmaker, writer, and translator, he was a young man when he left Japan for New York City in the mid-1960s.
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Akiko Iimura is best known for her role as an independent journalist, partner to Takahiko Iimura, and translator of filmmaker Jonas Mekas’ books, but she was also the editor-in-chief of New York's Japanese-language newspaper OCS News from 1982-1995.
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In March 2023, as part of the Community of Images exhibition project, we partnered with Videoart Center Tokyo to research materials at Takahiko Iimura’s studio in Tokyo. We were in search of materials related to Shelter 9999, a collaborative work between Takahiko Iimura and composer Alvin Lucier.
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