Movies
- 1982
Shift
Shift7.31982HD
By cutting up and zoom in on images of facades creates Matsumoto visual effects.
- 1987
Engram
Engram6.21987HD
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,...
- 1981
Connection
Connection6.41981HD
In Connection, a static shot of the sky with moving clouds is subdivided into regular geometrical regions, which are then individually (and...
- 2012
Toro Axe Part 3: All Things Change
Toro Axe Part 3: All Things Change02012HD
Matsumoto's last video was produced by Sano Gallery. Matsumoto set the common theme as “Seeing” in 2009, six co-writers participated to...
- 1955
Silver Wheel
Silver Wheel01955HD
A surrealist commercial for bicycles.
- 1978
Enigma: Nazo
Enigma: Nazo71978HD
Enigma is something of a more glamorous version of White Hole, with a wide variety of elaborate textures (often composed of iconographic and...
- 1969
Ecstasis
Ecstasis7.51969HD
Repetitive abstract experimental film. A bearded man flickers past a hundred times.
- 1992
Dissimulation
Dissimulation01992HD
- 1959
300 Ton Trailer
300 Ton Trailer01959HD
A short documentary about a trailer weighing over 300 tons that carries material for the construction of a dam toward Tokyo.
- 1975
Everything Visible Is Empty
Everything Visible Is Empty7.41975HD
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,...
- 1970
Space Projection Ako
Space Projection Ako01970HD
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...
- 1975
A Girl
A Girl01975HD
- 1972
Autonomy
Autonomy01972HD
- 1985
EE Control
EE Control4.81985HD
It was produced to be exhibited at the “Personal Focus” (April 23-8, 1985), a three-minute, 8mm film screening held in Fukuoka. Digitized...
- 1986
1986 Summer
1986 Summer01986HD
A previously unseen short by the Japanese avant-garde titan, Toshio Matsumoto's 1986 Summer locates faces and bodies within superimpositions, zooms,...
- 1984
Wave
Wave01984HD
- 1968
Magnetic Scramble
Magnetic Scramble01968HD
Magnetic Scramble is the first video work by Toshio Matsumoto. Here, the artist manipulates television images (of student demonstrations against the...
- 1982
Relation
Relation6.61982HD
In Relation, the focus of the viewer’s attention is guided by pointers moving through the screen.
- 1984
Vibration
Vibration01984HD
"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...
- 1959
Security Treaty
Security Treaty01959HD
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,...