Nobuhiro Aihara Movies

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.

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

A uniquely psychedelic animation of sordid and chaotic images.

Circles printed on white paper. Animation frenzy as music becomes more erotic/erratic.

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

As with "SPIN", an abstract animation with delicate line drawings. There are single color and color versions. Nakamura Shigenobu is in charge of the...

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

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