Keiichi Tanaami doesn't make a music video about Elvis, he makes one that moves like Elvis, hallucinates like Elvis, dissolves into pure color the way a voice dissolves into legend. The animation isn't illustrating the song; it's becoming it, frame by frame, a visual nervous system built for sound. This is experimental filmmaking dressed as a tribute, and it will either crack you open or leave you completely cold.

A visual journey set to music, this 1971 work by Keiichi Tanaami takes its inspiration from Elvis. Hand-drawn animation and cut-outs from magazines are thrown together into a chaotic collage that borrows freely from American pop culture. Images of war and pop iconography are cut against or blended with scenes of eroticism and consumption, while the soundtrack plays music and sounds backward. The short film was shown at the 3rd Sogetsu Animation Festival in 1971.