Toshio Matsumoto Movies

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...

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

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

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

Toshio Matsumoto's video on decommunization in Eastern Europe.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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....

A psychedelic yoga lesson with some beautiful and bizarre visuals.

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