Keiichi Tanaami Movies

A boxing ring turns into a stage for abstract animation where the punches thrown in the match and the halftone dots in reprographics gradually become...

A trippy pop-art collage of phallic objects, naked women and American icons, most notably Elvis Presley.

A joyfully psychedelic animation inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland.

The late Fujio Akatsuka is revered by many Japanese artists and scholars for his developments to early comedy manga, but his contributions aren't...

In Madonna, Tanaami employs his signature collage-style animation, combining pop art influences, retro aesthetics, and surrealistic motifs. The film...

Based on a major exhibition at the Ashmolean in Oxford, Tokyo Stories spans 400 years of incredibly dynamic art – ranging from the delicate...

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...

Blending psychedelic animation with haunting music. Centred around a black cat, it explores themes of misfortune and the uncanny through dreamlike...

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

A short experimental animation by Keiichi Tanaami.

The human eye, a well-known psychedelic motif, is multiplied and sharpened in Keiichi Tanaami's film trip 4 Eyes. Using his experience designing...

After seeing Velvet Underground perform in Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitables in New York, Tanaami became interested stroboscopic...

By the maker of Yellow Night. Also an exercise in the storyless and meaningless description of a drawn journey through the subconscious....

An experiment concerning the attempts at creating a ‘moving image’ long before the invention of cinema. A re-experiencing of the history...

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

A short film by Keiichi Tanaami.

An animation mixing hand-drawn and cut-out techniques depicting the daily rituals of weekday morning that is occasionally interrupted by flights of...

'There is a fusuma (paper sliding door) work based on the Hannya Shingyo (Prajna-paramita Hrdaya Sutram) by woodblock print artist Shikou Munakata....