Chihiro Yamanaka is an animation artist and filmmaker based in Japan. She is currently enrolled in the doctoral program at the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts, where she explores experimental forms of animation that combine traditional painting, abstract imagery, and digital technology. Her work often explores themes of perception, memory, and the dissolving boundaries between the self and the natural world. Her films have been screened at international film festivals around the world, including the Annecy International Animation Film Festival and the Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film.