Keiichi Tanaami

A Gaze in Summer-1942 (2025)

A short experimental animation by Keiichi Tanaami. ...

The Laughing Spider (2025)

A short movie by Keiichi Tanaami. ...

She (2025)

A short film by Keiichi Tanaami. ...

Adventures in Beauty Wonderland (2013)

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

Japanese Independent Animation, Volume 1 (2013)

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

Red Colored Bridge (2012)

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

DREAMS (2011)

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

A Portrait of Keiichi Tanaami (2010)

The first international DVD release of Keiichi Tanaami, the wizard of the Japanese experimental film and animation world. With this program, discover the pulsations of a singular artist for whom animation rhymes with imagination, exuberance, poetry and ero ...

The Heart Sutra (2010)

'There is a fusuma (paper sliding door) work based on the Hannya Shingyo (Prajna-paramita Hrdaya Sutram) by woodblock print artist Shikou Munakata. He wrote the sutra in one go without any rough drafts or scketches and the result is a very powerful and com ...

Shunga (2009)

Skilled-experimental animation shorts by body next to me. ...

Chirico (2008)

A wordless short homage to the maestro of pittura metafisica. ...

Inch-High Samurai (2007)

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

Tokyo Loop (2006)

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

Tokyo Trip (2006)

Short film made by Keiichi Tanaami, featured in Tokyo Loop. ...

Madonna (2005)

In Madonna, Tanaami employs his signature collage-style animation, combining pop art influences, retro aesthetics, and surrealistic motifs. The film explores themes of desire, fantasy, and memory, often referencing elements of post-war Japanese culture and ...

The Harmonic Gleam Vibration (2005)

A short experimental animation by Keiichi Tanaami. ...

Trip (2005)

By the maker of Yellow Night. Also an exercise in the storyless and meaningless description of a drawn journey through the subconscious. Hallucination as a cheerful firework display. Made with style and skill, because nonchalance obviously has to be conque ...

Blow Up 2 (2005)

A film by Keiichi Tanaami. ...

Landscape (2004)

A short animated film by Tanaami Keiichi. ...

10 Nights' Dreams (2004)

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

Fetish Doll (2003)

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

Aki no Puzzle (2003)

A kaleidoscope of painted cartoonish images including an obscene mouse. Born in 1936 in Tokyo, Keiichi Tanaami is one of the leading pop artists of postwar Japan, and has been active as multi-genre artist since the 1960s as a graphic designer, illustrator, ...

Walking Man (2002)

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

Scrap Diary (2002)

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

GOLDFISH FETISH (2002)

A short experimental animation by Keiichi Tanaami. ...

Scenes of My Childhood (2002)

Short animated film by Tanaami Keiichi. ...

Why Re-Mix (2002)

Breathing of the Wind (2001)

A short animared film by Tanaami Keiichi. ...

Memories Hidden in Darkness - Dreams of Various Shades (2000)

A short experimental animation by Keiichi Tanaami. ...

YOUSHI KEI (Another Rainbow City) (1979)

Film by Tanaami Keiichi. ...

YOUSHI KEI (Prologue) (1978)

A short film by Keiichi Tanaami ...

4 Eyes (1975)

The human eye, a well-known psychedelic motif, is multiplied and sharpened in Keiichi Tanaami's film trip 4 Eyes. Using his experience designing nightclubs, Tanaami projects two copies of the same film with a slight delay, so that it appears as if the ghos ...

Sweet Friday (1975)

An animation mixing hand-drawn and cut-out techniques depicting the daily rituals of weekday morning that is occasionally interrupted by flights of fantasy delivered in stroboscopic flashes. Showing scenes of brushing teeth and face washing, Tanaami descri ...

Crayon Angel (1975)

A psychedelic collage of wartime stock footage and family photos, suggesting an underlying message of peace. ...

Study of the Virgin in School Uniform Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (1975)

A surreal, pop-art depiction of a young girl losing her virginity. ...

Why (1975)

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 indistinguishable. Tanaami shot a boxing match on a Motordrive camera, made two thousand offset prints, an ...

Human Events (1975)

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 comprise of extreme close-ups of the dancer's body that is massaged by a finger as the colour of the image c ...

Spectacle (1975)

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, printed onto transparent cel sheets and layered on top of one anther, the halftone dots from reprographics ...

Look at the Wood (1975)

A short film by Keiichi Tanaami. ...

Artificial Paradise (1975)

Psychedelic –and at times sinister– music by Shinpei Kikuchi accompanies a disorienting display of reproduced imagery taken from magazines and posters of sunny beaches and bikini models. Tanaami made positive and negative reprographic prints of these i ...

Oh Yoko! (1973)

Animation by japanese artist Keiichi Tanaami for John Lennon's song "Oh Yoko!" -- the song was released in 1971, and the animation made in 1973. Keiichi Tanaami (田名網 敬一, Tanaami Keiichi, born in 1936 in Tokyo) was one of the leading pop artists o ...

Black Cat (1972)

Blending psychedelic animation with haunting music. Centred around a black cat, it explores themes of misfortune and the uncanny through dreamlike visuals and Maki Asakawa's melancholic song, "Fushiawase to Iu Na no Neko". ...

FLICKER LOVE NO.1 (1971)

After seeing Velvet Underground perform in Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitables in New York, Tanaami became interested stroboscopic effects. This flicker film was conceived as the first of many but this was the only one that was realized. ...

GOOD-BY ELVIS and USA (1971)

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

Commercial War (1971)

A short experimental animation by Keiichi Tanaami. ...

Good-by Marilyn (1971)

An erotic pop animation seemingly symbolizing his youth when his soul was taken by the Hollywood actress. ...

Marionettes in Masks (1965)

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

Tokyo Stories (2023)

Based on a major exhibition at the Ashmolean in Oxford, Tokyo Stories spans 400 years of incredibly dynamic art – ranging from the delicate woodblock prints of Hokusai and Hiroshige, to Pop Art posters, contemporary photography, Manga, film, and brand-ne ...

The Man Who Went Beyond Manga: Fujio Akatsuka (2016)

The late Fujio Akatsuka is revered by many Japanese artists and scholars for his developments to early comedy manga, but his contributions aren't just limited to the world of print media. Featuring commentary from family, friends, colleagues, and celebrity ...