Movies

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

Format: 16 mm standard; Color; Sound; 30 min 10 sec Sponsor: Japan Sake and Shochu Makers Association

A paranoid girl is haunted by the frightening manifestations of her hypnophobia. She is at odds with the waking world as she attempts to get away...

"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...

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

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

Nippon Rayon has produced clothing of assorted colors, designs, and materials. Their nylon products are not limited to fashion but extend to all...

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

Pictures from a Buddhist temple cut up and manipulated.

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

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...

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,...

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

A psychedelic yoga lesson with some beautiful and bizarre visuals.

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

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