Toshio Matsumoto Movies

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

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

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

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

Video began as a medium that inspired discovery. This art documentary traces the expressive roots of “media art” in Japan — works...

A psychedelic yoga lesson with some beautiful and bizarre visuals.

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

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

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

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

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...

An experimental short film from Toshio Matsumoto featuring Mona Lisa.

A 20-year-old drifter and a precocious 16-year-old girl slowly form a bond in a small town haunted by its wartime past.

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

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,...

Format: 16 mm standard; Color; Sound; 30 min 10 sec Sponsor: Japan Sake and Shochu Makers Association