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GOOD-BY ELVIS and USA (1971)
A trippy pop-art collage of phallic objects, naked women and American icons, most notably Elvis Presley.
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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 of postwar Japan, and was active as multi-genre artist since the 1960s as a graphic designer, illustrator, video artist and fine artist until his death in 2024.
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4.5
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Commercial War (1971)
A short experimental animation by Keiichi Tanaami.
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40
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4.5
/336/

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 images onto transparent cel sheets, placed them on top of one another, and twisted them in different directions to create a moiré effect. Speaking on the work, Tanaami explained his paradise only exists in the world of reproduction.
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45
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YOUSHI KEI (Another Rainbow City) (1979)
Film by Tanaami Keiichi.
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4.3
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Memories Hidden in Darkness - Dreams of Various Shades (2000)
A short experimental animation by Keiichi Tanaami.
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10
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She (2025)
A short film by Keiichi Tanaami.
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Chirico (2008)
A wordless short homage to the maestro of pittura metafisica.
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The Harmonic Gleam Vibration (2005)
A short experimental animation by Keiichi Tanaami.
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4.5
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Why Re-Mix (2002)
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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. (Source: Collaborative Cataloging Japan)
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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. (Source: Collaborative Cataloging Japan)
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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 changes. Arranged in a two (side)-by-three (down) composition, different parts of the body gets scattered in ways that defy the familiar order of the anatomy.
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Black Cat (1972)
A short film by Keiichi Tanaami featuring the song "Fushiawase to Iu Na no Neko" by Maki Asakawa.
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Adventures in Beauty Wonderland (2013)
A joyfully psychedelic animation inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland.
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Scenes of My Childhood (2002)
Short animated film by Tanaami Keiichi.
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4.5
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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, and rephotographed each of them. He explains his inspiration for the work being the experience of watching a boxing match on television but finding the newspaper print the next morning better capturing the exhilaration of the sport.
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Walking Man (2002)
The experimental animated short is a collaborative work between Keiichi Tanaami and Nobuhiro Aihara.
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3.5
/749/

10 Nights' Dreams (2004)
The experimental animated short is a collaborative work between Keiichi Tanaami and Nobuhiro Aihara.
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4.4
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Landscape (2004)
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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 American pop culture.
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Good-by Marilyn (1971)
An erotic pop animation seemingly symbolizing his youth when his soul was taken by the Hollywood actress.
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Fetish Doll (2003)
The experimental animated short is a collaborative work between Keiichi Tanaami and Nobuhiro Aihara.
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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 describes the film to be like a self-portrait on his favorite day of the week.
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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.
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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 ghost is losing consciousness. (IFFR)
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Breathing of the Wind (2001)
A short animared film by Tanaami Keiichi.
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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, video artist and fine artist.
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Dreams (2011)
The experimental animated short is a collaborative work between Keiichi Tanaami and Nobuhiro Aihara.
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A Gaze in Summer-1942 (2025)
A short experimental animation by Keiichi Tanaami.
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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.
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Goldfish Fetish (2002)
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Scrap Diary (2002)
The experimental animated short is a collaborative work between Keiichi Tanaami and Nobuhiro Aihara.
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Crayon Angel (1975)
A psychedelic collage of wartime stock footage and family photos, suggesting an underlying message of peace.
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Shunga (2009)
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Tokyo Loop (2006)
A series of 16 "short stories" created by the creator's group Images Forum.
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Red Shade (2021)
Keichi Tanaamis new animation work Red Shade (2021) is based on paintings that he had produced on the premise that they will be set in motion. Each of the 80 selected scenes was given a distinct movement of its own, and the edited version of the completed work became the first film. The 80 scenes are each independently complete, and can be freely rearranged. For example, you can start from scent 80 and end in scene one, or arrange them irregularly like 1, 4, 8, 7, and so on. In other words, the essence of the work does not change no matter how the scenes are arranged. Even so, it is possible to produce a strong impact by exchanging the images for each frame, and one can also for instance, create an impression of a refreshing breeze sweeping through the green meadows.
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YOUSHI KEI (Prologue) (1978)
A short film by Keiichi Tanaami
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Blow Up 2 (2005)
A film by Keiichi Tanaami.
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Tokyo Trip (2006)
Short film made by Keiichi Tanaami, featured in Tokyo Loop.
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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 conquered. (IFFR)
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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 compelling work. Ever since I first saw this fusuma I have had a special interest in the Hannya Shingyo... ' (extract of the commentary by Keiichi Tanaami)
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Inch-High Samurai (2007)
A collaborative film between Keiichi Tanaami and Nobuhiro Aihara with a new interpretation of the traditional Japanese folk tale.
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Noise (2006)
An experiment concerning the attempts at creating a ‘moving image’ long before the invention of cinema. A re-experiencing of the history of ‘magic with light’ unfolds through the use of various devices and techniques, including flip-book animation and Muybridge’s photographs in motion zoopraxiscope. (IFFR)
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Look at the Wood (1975)
A short film by Keiichi Tanaami.
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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 expand and contract to create a moiré effect.
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Japanese Independent Animation, Volume 1 (2013)
A compendium of independent Japanese animation, featuring a wide range of experimental techniques from drawn animation to pixilation.
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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 eroticism.


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