Toshio Matsumoto Movies

  • 1985
    EE Control

    EE Control

    EE Control

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

    EE Control
  • 1981
    Connection

    Connection

    Connection

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

    Connection
  • 1969
    Ecstasis

    Ecstasis

    Ecstasis

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

    Ecstasis
  • 1971
    Metastasis

    Metastasis

    Metastasis

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    Writes Matsumoto, "I used the Erekutoro Karapurosesu (Electro Color Processor), which is mainly used in the field of medicine and engineering, to...

    Metastasis
  • 1968
    Magnetic Scramble

    Magnetic Scramble

    Magnetic Scramble

    01968HD

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

    Magnetic Scramble
  • 1978
    Enigma: Nazo

    Enigma: Nazo

    Enigma: Nazo

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

    Enigma: Nazo
  • 1984
    Vibration

    Vibration

    Vibration

    01984HD

    "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...

    Vibration
  • 1987
    Engram

    Engram

    Engram

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    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,...

    Engram
  • 1982
    Shift

    Shift

    Shift

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

    Shift
  • 1982
    Relation

    Relation

    Relation

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

    Relation
  • 2018
    The Devil In Mary

    The Devil In Mary

    The Devil In Mary

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    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...

    The Devil In Mary
  • 2003
    Filming the Unfilmable: An Interview with Toshio Matsumoto

    Filming the Unfilmable: An Interview with Toshio Matsumoto

    Filming the Unfilmable: An Interview with Toshio Matsumoto

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    Toshio Matsumoto articulates his perspective on the creation of Dogra Magra, presented in the supplementary section of the Radiance DVD release.

    Filming the Unfilmable: An Interview with Toshio Matsumoto
  • 1984
    Delay Exposure

    Delay Exposure

    Delay Exposure

    01984HD

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

    Delay Exposure