Toshio Matsumoto Movies

  • 1975
    A Girl

    A Girl

    A Girl

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    A Girl
  • 1959
    300 Ton Trailer

    300 Ton Trailer

    300 Ton Trailer

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

    300 Ton Trailer
  • 1986
    1986 Summer

    1986 Summer

    1986 Summer

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

    1986 Summer
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1982
    Shift

    Shift

    Shift

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

    Shift
  • 1984
    Delay Exposure

    Delay Exposure

    Delay Exposure

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

    Delay Exposure
  • 1975
    Murder Catalogue

    Murder Catalogue

    Murder Catalogue

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    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....

    Murder Catalogue
  • 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
  • 1969
    Ecstasis

    Ecstasis

    Ecstasis

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

    Ecstasis
  • 1979
    White Hole

    White Hole

    White Hole

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    Avant garde/experimental film. A mesmerizing trip through the psychedelic vastness of space.

    White Hole
  • 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
  • 2012
    Toro Axe Part 3: All Things Change

    Toro Axe Part 3: All Things Change

    Toro Axe Part 3: All Things Change

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    Matsumoto's last video was produced by Sano Gallery. Matsumoto set the common theme as “Seeing” in 2009, six co-writers participated to...

    Toro Axe Part 3: All Things Change