Keiichi Tanaami Movies

A joyfully psychedelic animation inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland.

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

A short film by Keiichi Tanaami

Based on a major exhibition at the Ashmolean in Oxford, Tokyo Stories spans 400 years of incredibly dynamic art – ranging from the delicate...

A boxing ring turns into a stage for abstract animation where the punches thrown in the match and the halftone dots in reprographics gradually become...

The late Fujio Akatsuka is revered by many Japanese artists and scholars for his developments to early comedy manga, but his contributions aren't...

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

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

Psychedelic –and at times sinister– music by Shinpei Kikuchi accompanies a disorienting display of reproduced imagery taken from...

A trippy pop-art collage of phallic objects, naked women and American icons, most notably Elvis Presley.

In Madonna, Tanaami employs his signature collage-style animation, combining pop art influences, retro aesthetics, and surrealistic motifs. The film...

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

After seeing Velvet Underground perform in Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitables in New York, Tanaami became interested stroboscopic...

A work with two projectors, Human Events is a film made for a dance performance by Kazuko Tsujimura at Kinokuniya Hall, Shinjuku, Tokyo. The images...

The bridge as the channel between worlds: between the living and the dead, between male and female, between sacred and profane.

The human eye, a well-known psychedelic motif, is multiplied and sharpened in Keiichi Tanaami's film trip 4 Eyes. Using his experience designing...

A wordless short homage to the maestro of pittura metafisica.

A short film by Keiichi Tanaami.

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