Keiichi Tanaami Movies

A short experimental animation by Keiichi Tanaami.

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

A work with two projectors, Human Events is a film made for a dance performance by Kazuko Tsujimura at Kinokuniya Hall, Shinjuku, Tokyo. The images...

A wordless short homage to the maestro of pittura metafisica.

A psychedelic film using four projectors. The film comprises of thirteen scenes, including a woman and man shot from the front. Shot frame-by-frame,...

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

A short animared film by Tanaami Keiichi.

Psychedelic –and at times sinister– music by Shinpei Kikuchi accompanies a disorienting display of reproduced imagery taken from...

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

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

Screened at the 1st Sogetsu Animation Festival in 1965, the film was made in 35mm using the animation equipment owned by animator Yoji Kuri. ...

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

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.

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

A short film 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...

A film by Keiichi Tanaami.

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