Nobody talks about this one. A 1971 music video that treats Marilyn Monroe not as an icon to worship but as a person already gone, already consumed by the machinery that made her. Tanaami's collage aesthetic doesn't mourn her, it dissects the difference between the woman and the image, frame by frame, until you're not sure which one was ever real. The experimental form isn't decoration; it's the only honest way to say goodbye to something that was never allowed to be a thing in the first place.

Made by Tanaami in 1971, this short animated music video draws its inspiration from Marilyn Monroe. Set to Miki Hirayama's song 'Manatsu no dekigoto' (Midsummer Happening), the film has a cheeky, erotic streak and borrows familiar pop images: Monroe herself, Mickey Mouse, Superman, Roy Lichtenstein prints, and the Glico candy mascot breaking the tape at the end of a race. It screened at the 3rd Animation Festival at the Sogetsu Art Center, the same year Tanaami took part in the 'My Marilyn Monroe' exhibition at Gallery Décor in Tokyo.