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Tanaami Keiichi

TANAAMI Keiichi (1936, Japan) is a multimedia artist and filmmaker. He graduated from Musashino Art University in 1960 and quickly became a popular designer and member of the Japanese Neo-Dada movement. In the late 1960s, he travelled to New York, where he was inspired by pop art and the work of Andy Warhol. In this period, he also began making short films and animations, for which he received widespread acclaim. In 1975, he was appointed the first artistic director of the Japanese Playboy. With his success, he became a leading figure in Japanese pop art. Since 1991, he has worked as a professor at Kyoto University of Art and Design.

Filmography

(all short, selection) Marionettes in Masks (1965), Women (1966, co-dir), Jam Pot (1971), Green-Red (1971), She (1971), Pussy (1971), Rainbow-Scene (1971), Flicker Love No.1 (1971), Good Bye Marilyn (1971), Good-Bye Elvis and USA (1971), Commercial War (1971), Study of the Virgin in School Uniform Stripped Bare by her Bachelors (1972), Black Cat (1972), Oh! Yoko! (1973), U.F.O. (1973), Sweet Touch of Love (1974), Get Back on the Hill (1975), Sweet Friday (1975), Crayon Angel (1975), Human Events (1975), Artificial Paradise (1975), Look at the Wood (1975), Photographs and Memories (1975), Spectacle (1975), Shoot the Moon (1975), Why (1975), 4-Eyes (1975), Casa Blanca (1976), Jekyll and Hyde (1977), Youshi Kei (Preview) (1978), Youshi Kei (Prologue) (1978), Frankenstein (1978), Youshi Kei (Another Rainbow City) (1979), Darkness Luring a Faint (1980), Ryogu-Saishoku (1981), Dream Shape Records (1984), Dark Memories (2000), Breath of Wind (Correspondence by Animation) (2001), Goldfish Fetish (2002), Walking Man (2002), Memories (Scene of the Childhood) (2002), Gaze in the Summer – 1942 (2002), Scrap Diary (2002, co-dir), Why Re-Mix 2002 (2002), Portrait of Keiichi Tanaami (2003), Fetish Doll (2003), Puzzle of Autumn (2003), Ten Nights Dreams (2004), Landscape (2004), The Harmonic Gleam Vibration (2005), Madonna (2005), 4-Eyes Remix 2005 (2005), Blow Up 2 (2005), Madonna’s Temptation (2005), Trip (2005, co-dir), Noise (2006, co-dir), Inch-High Samurai (2007), Paradise for Eyes (2008), De chirico (2008), Shunga (2009), Hanya Shingyo (2010), Dreams (2011, co-dir), Red Coloured Bridge (2012), Adventures in Beauty Wonderland (2013), The Laughing Spider (2016)

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Tanaami Keiichi at IFFR