Toshio Matsumoto Filmes

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,...

'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.

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

Documentary about the relationships between mothers and their children.

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

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

Pictures from a Buddhist temple cut up and manipulated.

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

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

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.

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...

A surrealist commercial for bicycles.

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

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

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