Nobuhiro Aihara Movies

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.

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

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

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

An animated string held between two youths standing in various locations. The sound negative of this work has unfortunately been lost, and so it is...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 animated documentary is derived from footage shot at the site of the Sanrizuka struggle opposing the construction of Narita Airport. In addition...

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

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...

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

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