Nobuhiro Aihara Movies

The experimental animated short is a collaborative work between Keiichi Tanaami and Nobuhiro Aihara.

By the maker of Yellow Night. Also an exercise in the storyless and meaningless description of a drawn journey through the subconscious....

This is a documentary of a live animation battle between Aihara and Tanaami that took place on the 10th of March 2004 at EX'REALM in Tokyo. The room...

An experiment concerning the attempts at creating a ‘moving image’ long before the invention of cinema. A re-experiencing of the history...

A collaborative film between Keiichi Tanaami and Nobuhiro Aihara with a new interpretation of the traditional Japanese folk tale.

The experimental animated short is a collaborative work between Keiichi Tanaami and Nobuhiro Aihara.

The experimental animated short is a collaborative work between Keiichi Tanaami and Nobuhiro Aihara.

A wordless short homage to the maestro of pittura metafisica.

A young boy named Takeshi steals an origami crane from his friend Nobu. To Takeshi's surprise the crane begins talking to him and offers to take him...

'There is a fusuma (paper sliding door) work based on the Hannya Shingyo (Prajna-paramita Hrdaya Sutram) by woodblock print artist Shikou Munakata....

A compendium of independent Japanese animation, featuring a wide range of experimental techniques from drawn animation to pixilation.

The experimental animated short is a collaborative work between Keiichi Tanaami and Nobuhiro Aihara.

Set in a cave imagined as an air-raid shelter, images of the surrounding trees are painted over directly on the film. Vivid colors intermixed with...

The scenery of the forest in Ogawa and the city of Kyoto and the abstract animation conceived from there are juxtaposed.

An abstract animation with a motif of a dragonfly, and a complex multi-exposure landscape of a field and a woman's naked body overlap.

A series of 16 "short stories" created by the creator's group Images Forum.

A psychedelic animation that starts with an irregular ink spread and develops while increasing the degree of confusion.

A turning point toward abstraction in Aihara’s career, this work was originally created for the “100 Feet Film Festival”.