Toshio Matsumoto Movies

  • 1971
    Metastasis

    Metastasis

    Metastasis

    5.51971HD

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

    Metastasis
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2018
    The Devil In Mary

    The Devil In Mary

    The Devil In Mary

    02018HD

    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
  • 1962
    I'm Nylon

    I'm Nylon

    I'm Nylon

    01962HD

    I'm Nylon
  • 1990
    Old/New

    Old/New

    Old/New

    01990HD

    Toshio Matsumoto's video on decommunization in Eastern Europe.

    Old/New
  • 1959
    Security Treaty

    Security Treaty

    Security Treaty

    01959HD

    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,...

    Security Treaty
  • 1981
    Connection

    Connection

    Connection

    6.41981HD

    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

    7.51969HD

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

    Ecstasis
  • 1980
    Ki or Breathing

    Ki or Breathing

    Ki or Breathing

    7.31980HD

    '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.

    Ki or Breathing
  • 1978
    Enigma: Nazo

    Enigma: Nazo

    Enigma: Nazo

    71978HD

    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