Nobuhiro Aihara Movies

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

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...

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

A wordless short homage to the maestro of pittura metafisica.

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Abstract forms animated in drawings.

Following on from Shelter (1981), the setting is again an air-raid shelter. Close-up images of trees are dissected and reformed abstractly. The...

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.

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

Understood as an extension of Reckless Daydream (1974), abstract forms are transfigured. This version includes the intended processing of the blue...