Toshio Matsumoto Movies

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

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

Pictures from a Buddhist temple cut up and manipulated.

An experimental short film from Toshio Matsumoto featuring Mona Lisa.

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

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,...

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

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

A surrealist commercial for bicycles.

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,...

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

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

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

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

"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...

Documentary about the relationships between mothers and their children.

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...