Nobuhiro Aihara

水輪 カルマ2

Nobuhiro Aihara

Abstract forms animated in drawings.

Wind

Nobuhiro Aihara

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

やまかがし

Nobuhiro Aihara

The interactions of troops and prostitutes near the Naval Air Facility Atsugi (Kanagawa Prefecture), animated from a child’s perspective. Aihara’s works of this period often contain a documentary view of Japanese society at the time of his childhood.

カルマ

Nobuhiro Aihara

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. At first we can only see tiny specks on the screen, coming and going like snow flurries. The specks gradually grow larger and take the shape of bubbles, then even larger into rivulets of water on a transparent surface.

気動

Nobuhiro Aihara

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

Chirico

Nobuhiro Aihara, Keiichi Tanaami

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

光

Nobuhiro Aihara

Experimental short by Nobuhiro Aihara.

LINE

Nobuhiro Aihara

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

Honeybee Season Has Passed

Nobuhiro Aihara

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.

Neo-Night on the Bald Mountain

Nobuhiro Aihara

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.

Powdered White Wings

Nobuhiro Aihara

An upbeat comical animated collage telling the story of a man attempting to fly with artificial wings.

10 Nights' Dreams

Nobuhiro Aihara, Keiichi Tanaami

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

とんぼ

Nobuhiro Aihara

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.

Memory of Red

Nobuhiro Aihara

Red Diamant

Nobuhiro Aihara

An appropriation of an ukiyo-e print of Katsuhika Hokusai, this work incorporates multiple exposures and a range of animation techniques. Recently created from a faded print, this telecine copy restores the vivid red of the original version.

STONE

Nobuhiro Aihara

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