Nobuhiro Aihara Movies

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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.

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...

The human hand transformed through various animation techniques.

Psychedelic animation that impresses with eyeballs and other motifs.

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

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

Experimental short by Nobuhiro Aihara.

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

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

Animation of a large hand toying with a runner, and attempting to stab them with a needle.

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.