Nobuhiro Aihara Trailers
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Nobuhiro Aihara was born in Kanagawa prefecture in 1944, where he studied at the design school. He began his career in television animation in the 1960s and started producing his own independent animation in 1965. His aesthetic is distinctive for his use of flowing lines, highly complex drawings, and his love of psychedelic colours. He was a prolific artist who often produced several animated shorts a year either on his own or in collaboration with his friend and fellow artist the Keiichi Tanaami. Nobuhiro died on April the 30, 2011 and left behind 85 animated works.
Most Popular Nobuhiro Aihara Trailers
Total trailers found: 60
23 December 2006
A series of 16 "short stories" created by the creator's group Images Forum.
14 October 1989
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 and his friends to an amusement park in space where children from many planets play.
05 May 1975
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.
01 January 2008
Circles printed on white paper. Animation frenzy as music becomes more erotic/erratic.
05 February 1972
An upbeat comical animated collage telling the story of a man attempting to fly with artificial wings.
01 January 1999
Photos taken with pinhole camera, sky + clouds. Swirling animation like smoke against a black background.
01 January 1996
A psychedelic animation that starts with an irregular ink spread and develops while increasing the degree of confusion.
01 January 1995
A colorful psychedelic animation developed by drawing motifs of each part of the ear and body.
01 January 2007
A collaborative film between Keiichi Tanaami and Nobuhiro Aihara with a new interpretation of the traditional Japanese folk tale.
06 June 1980
The human hand transformed through various animation techniques.
01 January 2007
Vivid, chromatic animation.
01 January 1985
Hands / flicker / morphing animation suggests sexual organs in a frantic dance.
31 December 2003
The experimental animated short is a collaborative work between Keiichi Tanaami and Nobuhiro Aihara.
01 January 1990
The scenery of the forest in Ogawa and the city of Kyoto and the abstract animation conceived from there are juxtaposed.
07 June 2006
An experiment concerning the attempts at creating a ‘moving image’ long before the invention of cinema.
04 April 1974
A turning point toward abstraction in Aihara’s career, this work was originally created for the “100 Feet Film Festival”.
04 April 1980
Quiet images of statues and fire, followed by animation on drawing paper sinking into the ocean.
18 September 2013
A compendium of independent Japanese animation, featuring a wide range of experimental techniques from drawn animation to pixilation.
01 January 1993
A tense abstract animation with delicate line drawing. Contemporary musician Nakamura Shigenobu is in charge of the music used in the work.
04 April 1973
An appropriation of an ukiyo-e print of Katsuhika Hokusai, this work incorporates multiple exposures and a range of animation techniques.
23 December 2006
Darkness and light, as seen by VIFF’s favourite Buddhist erotist. Part of the TOKYO LOOP animation anthology produced by ImageForum Japan.
05 May 1976
Understood as an extension of Reckless Daydream (1974), abstract forms are transfigured. This version includes the intended processing of the blue hue and the animation’s timing, as instructed on the film’s original can.
01 January 2005
By the maker of Yellow Night. Also an exercise in the storyless and meaningless description of a drawn journey through the subconscious.
02 February 1972
The interactions of troops and prostitutes near the Naval Air Facility Atsugi (Kanagawa Prefecture), animated from a child’s perspective.
04 April 1973
Animation of a large hand toying with a runner, and attempting to stab them with a needle.
05 May 1980
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 now presented silently.
01 January 1984
An animation that combines the motion of abstract lines and the motif of an apple.
03 March 1973
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 precursors to the more spiritual and psychedelic animation of Aihara’s later years.
01 January 2010
'There is a fusuma (paper sliding door) work based on the Hannya Shingyo (Prajna-paramita Hrdaya Sutram) by woodblock print artist Shikou Munakata.
05 May 1975
A stop-motion animation of endlessly moving forward towards a quarry.
05 May 1973
Animations overlaid on a rough grained photo of the Japanese mountain countryside. The physical painting of Japanese lacquer directly onto the film is incorporated into the animation.
01 January 1985
A uniquely psychedelic animation of sordid and chaotic images.
01 January 1987
Steps with shadows. An arm shadow in the landscape - concrete/grass/flowers. Flicker and a finger morphs into abstraction.
01 January 2004
The experimental animated short is a collaborative work between Keiichi Tanaami and Nobuhiro Aihara.
01 August 1977
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 be shot on 16mm using a blue filter.
01 January 1969
This is Aihara’s earliest surviving work. Motifs of psychedelic culture and the anti-war movement are directly scratched and painted on translucent film.
01 January 1994
As with "SPIN", an abstract animation with delicate line drawings. There are single color and color versions.
04 April 1973
A photograph of Aihara’s grandmother, overlapped with a tranquil documentary style animation of her life ending at her funeral scene.
01 January 1988
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.
06 June 1981
Following on from Shelter (1981), the setting is again an air-raid shelter. Close-up images of trees are dissected and reformed abstractly.
01 January 1989
Psychedelic animation that impresses with eyeballs and other motifs.
01 January 1998
Images of the sea and clouds seen from the top of the mountain, the candles of the Tibetan temple, etc.
31 December 2002
The experimental animated short is a collaborative work between Keiichi Tanaami and Nobuhiro Aihara.
01 January 1978
Experimental short by Nobuhiro Aihara.
06 June 1980
Set in a cave imagined as an air-raid shelter, images of the surrounding trees are painted over directly on the film.
01 January 2002
The experimental animated short is a collaborative work between Keiichi Tanaami and Nobuhiro Aihara.
05 May 1980
Abstract forms animated in drawings.
01 January 1970
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 moments provide the seeds of his later abstract exploration.
05 May 1979
Regarded as a creative extension of Stone (1975), animation unfolds on drawing paper placed on a field and farm.
01 January 1982
Project an abstract animation with an apple motif on various places of an old rural house and re-shoot it.
01 January 2008
A wordless short homage to the maestro of pittura metafisica.
01 January 1992
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.
01 January 1999
Ice/ink on white, then into black and red explosive figures, a finger appears.
01 January 2011
The experimental animated short is a collaborative work between Keiichi Tanaami and Nobuhiro Aihara.
01 January 1975
Originally titled Stone No. 2, this is considered a seminal work of Japanese independent animation. Stones, houses and the surrounding natural landscape transform continuously.
03 March 1972
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 escape from fetters.
01 January 1971
This animated documentary is derived from footage shot at the site of the Sanrizuka struggle opposing the construction of Narita Airport.
