Movies

A uniquely psychedelic animation of sordid and chaotic images.

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

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...

Abstract forms animated in drawings.

Quiet images of statues and fire, followed by animation on drawing paper sinking into the ocean.

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

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 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...

A black-and-white flicker film by Nobuhiro Aihara.

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

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

An animation that combines the motion of abstract lines and the motif of an apple.

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.

Images of the sea and clouds seen from the top of the mountain, the candles of the Tibetan temple, etc., and a chaotic psychedelic animation are...

An upbeat comical animated collage telling the story of a man attempting to fly with artificial wings.

A photograph of Aihara’s grandmother, overlapped with a tranquil documentary style animation of her life ending at her funeral scene.

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

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

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

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