Nobuhiro Aihara Movies

Photos taken with pinhole camera, sky + clouds. Swirling animation like smoke against a black background.

Vivid, chromatic animation.

Hands / flicker / morphing animation suggests sexual organs in a frantic dance.

Animations overlaid on a rough grained photo of the Japanese mountain countryside. The physical painting of Japanese lacquer directly onto the film...

The interactions of troops and prostitutes near the Naval Air Facility Atsugi (Kanagawa Prefecture), animated from a child’s perspective. ...

Psychedelic animation that impresses with eyeballs and other motifs.

A tense abstract animation with delicate line drawing. Contemporary musician Nakamura Shigenobu is in charge of the music used in the work.

Project an abstract animation with an apple motif on various places of an old rural house and re-shoot it.

Regarded as a creative extension of Stone (1975), animation unfolds on drawing paper placed on a field and farm.

Steps with shadows. An arm shadow in the landscape - concrete/grass/flowers. Flicker and a finger morphs into abstraction. A real hand appears above...

Experimental short by Nobuhiro Aihara.

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

Ice/ink on white, then into black and red explosive figures, a finger appears.

A stop-motion animation of endlessly moving forward towards a quarry.

Animation of a large hand toying with a runner, and attempting to stab them with a needle.

An image of an Inari shrive, overlapped with the hands of a monk holding a symbol. The work’s shamanistic imagery and rapid speed are...

An animated string held between two youths standing in various locations. The sound negative of this work has unfortunately been lost, and so it is...

In his early experimental short Karma (カルマ, 1977), Aihara uses water as his central motif. The film is hand drawn and appears to...

This is Aihara’s earliest surviving work. Motifs of psychedelic culture and the anti-war movement are directly scratched and painted on...