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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...

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.

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

A documentary style animation of an apiarist at work in combination with scenes of a seaside village, overlapped with images of a boy trying to...

Animation of a devil floating in air, Aihara created both a black and white and color version of this work by painting directly on the film.

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

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...

An appropriation of an ukiyo-e print of Katsuhika Hokusai, this work incorporates multiple exposures and a range of animation techniques. Recently...

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

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

Begun in 8mm film, but completed in 16mm following the purchase of a new camera, this work continues with the psychedelic and anti-war themes, while...

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

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

A colorful psychedelic animation developed by drawing motifs of each part of the ear and body.

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

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

Vivid, chromatic animation.

Psychedelic animation that impresses with eyeballs and other motifs.

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