Toshio Matsumoto Movies

Documentary about the relationships between mothers and their children.

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,...

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

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

A young drifter and a precocious sixteen years old girl slowly form a bond in a small town haunted by its wartime past.

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,...

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...

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

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

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,...

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...

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

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

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