“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

Program is approximately 90 min, all films are originally 16mm and will be presented digitally, 1975–2007.

This project is funded in part by a Neighborhood Matching Fund Award from Seattle Department of Neighborhoods. Special thanks to Sea Slug Animation Festival, our Community Partner for this event.