Movies

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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 uniquely psychedelic animation of sordid and chaotic images.

Animations overlaid on a rough grained photo of the Japanese mountain countryside. The physical painting of Japanese lacquer directly onto the film...

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

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...

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

The human hand transformed through various animation techniques.

Psychedelic animation that impresses with eyeballs and other motifs.

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

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

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

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