Toshio Matsumoto

Engram is a three-part piece revolving around a few good old ideas such as photos inside of photos, movies inside of movies, photos inside of movies,...

A documentary on sixties counterculture in Japan featuring Donald Richie, Tadanori Yokoo, Masao Adachi, Koji Wakamatsu, Toshio Matsumoto and Akaji...

In late 60s Tokyo, Eddie, a young trans woman, is the favourite of Gonda, the owner of the bar where she works. This relationship provokes the...

In late 60s Tokyo, Eddie, a young trans woman, is the favourite of Gonda, the owner of the bar where she works. This relationship provokes the...

A young man kills his bride on the day of his marriage and goes insane. He wakes up in an asylum with no memory, left in the hands of two mysterious...

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Repetitive abstract experimental film. A bearded man flickers past a hundred times.

Two chaotic series of images, one for each eye. Hipster living, malformed fetuses, war, arts events and pop culture stands for the material.

Tells the story of the samurai Gengobe, who seeks revenge after falling prey to the schemes of a geisha and her husband.

By cutting up and zoom in on images of facades creates Matsumoto visual effects.

A young drifter and a precocious sixteen years old girl slowly form a bond in a small town haunted by its wartime past.

A young drifter and a precocious sixteen years old girl slowly form a bond in a small town haunted by its wartime past.

ĀTMAN is a visual tour-de-force based on the idea of the subject at the centre of the circle created by camera positions (480 such positions)....

Avant garde/experimental film. A mesmerizing trip through the psychedelic vastness of space.

Writes Matsumoto, "I used the Erekutoro Karapurosesu (Electro Color Processor), which is mainly used in the field of medicine and engineering, to...

Magnetic Scramble is the first video work by Toshio Matsumoto. Here, the artist manipulates television images (of student demonstrations against the...

Toshio Matsumoto's video on decommunization in Eastern Europe.

Enigma is something of a more glamorous version of White Hole, with a wide variety of elaborate textures (often composed of iconographic and...

'Ki or Breathing' is a spare concoction assembled from slow motion shots of nature and set to a score by the much-acclaimed Tohru Takemitsu.

An experimental short film from Toshio Matsumoto featuring Mona Lisa.

A kaleidoskopic image of Andy Warhol, presumably found footage from some interview, is slowed down and played over sudden pangs of screeching white...

Nippon Rayon has produced clothing of assorted colors, designs, and materials. Their nylon products are not limited to fashion but extend to all...

A surrealist commercial for bicycles.

A psychedelic yoga lesson with some beautiful and bizarre visuals.

The Weavers of Nishijin captures the process of traditional textile manufacture in Nishijin.

While extracting and polishing their blocks of stone, stonecutters used to say “the stone is coming to life". This paradox provided Matsumoto...

Documentary about the relationships between mothers and their children.

There's more to picture than meets the eye in this journey into oriental metaphysical imagery. Starting (in a very Christian manner) with the Word,...

In Connection, a static shot of the sky with moving clouds is subdivided into regular geometrical regions, which are then individually (and...

The Weavers of Nishijin captures the process of traditional textile manufacture in Nishijin.

Engram is a three-part piece revolving around a few good old ideas such as photos inside of photos, movies inside of movies, photos inside of movies,...

In Relation, the focus of the viewer’s attention is guided by pointers moving through the screen.

Expansion remixes the images of Matsumoto’s Esctasis into an more colourful psychedelic short.

A young man kills his bride on the day of his marriage and goes insane. He wakes up in an asylum with no memory, left in the hands of two mysterious...

Pictures from a Buddhist temple cut up and manipulated.

Experimental film by Toshio Matsumoto created for the 1970 world's fair, Expo '70 in Osaka. The film was made up of multiple projections onto the...

An early experimental film by Toshio Matsumoto. Produced as part of the student riots in Japan at the start of the 1960s, Matsumoto uses collage,...

Early experimental PR "cine-poem" by Toshio Matsumoto. Commissioned by Kansai Electricity, the film paints an abstract, near-wordless retelling of...

An early experimental film by Toshio Matsumoto. Produced as part of the student riots in Japan at the start of the 1960s, Matsumoto uses collage,...

A short documentary about a trailer weighing over 300 tons that carries material for the construction of a dam toward Tokyo.

Towards the end of the Second World War, a downed U.S. pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions...

A paranoid girl is haunted by the frightening manifestations of her hypnophobia. She is at odds with the waking world as she attempts to get away...

A previously unseen short by the Japanese avant-garde titan, Toshio Matsumoto's 1986 Summer locates faces and bodies within superimpositions, zooms,...

ĀTMAN is a visual tour-de-force based on the idea of the subject at the centre of the circle created by camera positions (480 such positions)....

"A flicker film made using only intense shock-zooms, Vibration is one of a series of films Matsumoto made in the 1980s that explored proprioception...

"Set to a soundtrack of pulsing synth bleats, Delay Exposure rhythmically deploys a low-tech, in-camera tricks—including lens-flares,...

Tells the story of the samurai Gengobe, who seeks revenge after falling prey to the schemes of a geisha and her husband.

It was produced to be exhibited at the “Personal Focus” (April 23-8, 1985), a three-minute, 8mm film screening held in Fukuoka. Digitized...

Matsumoto's early video work Murder Catalogue, but there were few opportunities to be screened at that time since it dealt with a grotesque image....

Matsumoto's last video was produced by Sano Gallery. Matsumoto set the common theme as “Seeing” in 2009, six co-writers participated to...

The film is a promotional film, recording the construction of a pressurized lockbox at the Hachinohe power plant in Aomori. Matsumoto's official...

A documentary focusing on the things and animals necessary for the Olympics in Tokyo in 1964.