Keiichi Tanaami Movies

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

A short film by Keiichi Tanaami

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

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

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

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

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

The bridge as the channel between worlds: between the living and the dead, between male and female, between sacred and profane.

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

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

A collaborative film between Keiichi Tanaami and Nobuhiro Aihara with a new interpretation of the traditional Japanese folk tale.

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

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...

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.

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