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Originally titled Stone No. 2, this is considered a seminal work of Japanese independent animation. Stones, houses and the surrounding natural...

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

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...

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

Vivid, chromatic animation.

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.

Images of the sea and clouds seen from the top of the mountain, the candles of the Tibetan temple, etc., and a chaotic psychedelic animation are...

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

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

This is Aihara’s earliest surviving work. Motifs of psychedelic culture and the anti-war movement are directly scratched and painted on...

Experimental short by Nobuhiro Aihara.

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

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...

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

An abstract animation with a motif of a dragonfly, and a complex multi-exposure landscape of a field and a woman's naked body overlap.

Abstract forms animated in drawings.

It is a monster work that depicts a disturbing air by drawing a scene with the crow as a motif and the scenery of Kyoto in parallel with a frame shot.

A documentary style animation of an apiarist at work in combination with scenes of a seaside village, overlapped with images of a boy trying to...

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