Toshio Matsumoto Movies

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...

Pictures from a Buddhist temple cut up and manipulated.

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,...

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...

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

The film is a promotional film, recording the construction of a pressurized lockbox at the Hachinohe power plant in Aomori. Matsumoto's official...

"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...

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

Expansion remixes the images of Matsumoto’s Esctasis into an more colourful psychedelic short.

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

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

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

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