Toshio Matsumoto Movies
- 1987
Engram
Engram6.21987HD
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,...
- 1975
Everything Visible Is Empty
Everything Visible Is Empty7.41975HD
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,...
- 1974
Andy Warhol: Re-Reproduction
Andy Warhol: Re-Reproduction5.91974HD
A kaleidoskopic image of Andy Warhol, presumably found footage from some interview, is slowed down and played over sudden pangs of screeching white...
- 1968
Magnetic Scramble
Magnetic Scramble01968HD
Magnetic Scramble is the first video work by Toshio Matsumoto. Here, the artist manipulates television images (of student demonstrations against the...
- 1981
Connection
Connection6.41981HD
In Connection, a static shot of the sky with moving clouds is subdivided into regular geometrical regions, which are then individually (and...
- 1982
Relation
Relation6.61982HD
In Relation, the focus of the viewer’s attention is guided by pointers moving through the screen.
- 1975
A Girl
A Girl01975HD
- 1955
Silver Wheel
Silver Wheel01955HD
A surrealist commercial for bicycles.
- 1970
Space Projection Ako
Space Projection Ako01970HD
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...
- 1975
Phantom
Phantom6.51975HD
A psychedelic yoga lesson with some beautiful and bizarre visuals.
- 1960
Record of A Long White Line
Record of A Long White Line01960HD
Early experimental PR "cine-poem" by Toshio Matsumoto. Commissioned by Kansai Electricity, the film paints an abstract, near-wordless retelling of...
- 1985
Sway
Sway7.71985HD
Pictures from a Buddhist temple cut up and manipulated.
- 1969
Ecstasis
Ecstasis7.51969HD
Repetitive abstract experimental film. A bearded man flickers past a hundred times.
- 1984
Wave
Wave01984HD
- 1978
Enigma: Nazo
Enigma: Nazo71978HD
Enigma is something of a more glamorous version of White Hole, with a wide variety of elaborate textures (often composed of iconographic and...
- 1959
300 Ton Trailer
300 Ton Trailer01959HD
A short documentary about a trailer weighing over 300 tons that carries material for the construction of a dam toward Tokyo.
- 1992
Dissimulation
Dissimulation01992HD
- 1959
Security Treaty
Security Treaty01959HD
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,...
- 1982
Shift
Shift7.31982HD
By cutting up and zoom in on images of facades creates Matsumoto visual effects.
- 1985
EE Control
EE Control4.81985HD
It was produced to be exhibited at the “Personal Focus” (April 23-8, 1985), a three-minute, 8mm film screening held in Fukuoka. Digitized...