On Site: Nobuhiro Aihara: Third Eye Animation
꩜ Co-Presentation
We’re excited to be a community partner for this rare retrospective of experimental animation from Japanese visionary Nobuhiro Aihara, curated and presented by Los Angeles-based film programmers Zena Gray and Mark Toscano.
“From the mid-1960s to his unexpected passing in 2011, Aihara produced a truly astonishing body of animated work, often employing virtuosic hand-drawn abstractions and a tactile engagement with the forces of nature, resulting in a deep-feeling, transcendent cinematic psychedelia like no other. A constant experimenter, Aihara was always exploring new modes of manifesting time, natural energies, and complex emotionality, sometimes juxtaposing delicate moments of ecstatic, meditative beauty with utterly chaotic, cacophonous, surrealist freakouts.” —Mark Toscano
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“From the mid-1960s to his unexpected passing in 2011, Aihara produced a truly astonishing body of animated work, often employing virtuosic hand-drawn abstractions and a tactile engagement with the forces of nature, resulting in a deep-feeling, transcendent cinematic psychedelia like no other. A constant experimenter, Aihara was always exploring new modes of manifesting time, natural energies, and complex emotionality, sometimes juxtaposing delicate moments of ecstatic, meditative beauty with utterly chaotic, cacophonous, surrealist freakouts.” —Mark Toscano
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