My favourite of his pieces was 'Water Level and Organ Sound', which had images of swimming figures projected through a tank of water. It was unlike anything I have ever seen, and the shapes and movement of figures looked so beautiful through the delicate water.
The most memorable of his films was 'Kimura-san', which involved the sexual needs of his disabled friend, who can hardly move his body, but is of sound mind. It has raised a lot of controversy throughout, but to be honest, it wasn't as uncomfortable as I imagined it would be. The camerawork was very disorientating, and sometimes it was quite hard to work out what was being shown, but that was probably the artist's intention.
The piece that was most useful to me was his film, 'God Bless America', which contained stop motion footage of Takamine and his girlfriend creating and moulding a giant clay head over the span of 18 days. Even though my stop motion film is completely different, the editing, framing and manipulation of clay helped me in my own work.
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