Toshio Matsumoto Movies

Pictures from a Buddhist temple cut up and manipulated.

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

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,...

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

Documentary about the relationships between mothers and their children.

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

An experimental short film from Toshio Matsumoto featuring Mona Lisa.

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

A surrealist commercial for bicycles.

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

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

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

"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...

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

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