Toshio Matsumoto Movies

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

The Weavers of Nishijin captures the process of traditional textile manufacture in Nishijin.

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

Silver Wheel (Bicycle in Dream) is a PR film that was produced to promote the export of bicycles. However, Matsumoto Toshio, who was an employee of...

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

A five-part documentary chronicling Toshio Matsumoto, the legendary filmmaker known as a pioneer of experimental cinema in Japan and also active as a...

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

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,...

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

Matsumoto's early video work Murder Catalogue, but there were few opportunities to be screened at that time since it dealt with a grotesque image....

An experimental short film from Toshio Matsumoto featuring Mona Lisa.

Pictures from a Buddhist temple cut up and manipulated.

Toshio Matsumoto articulates his perspective on the creation of Dogra Magra, presented in the supplementary section of the Radiance DVD release.

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

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

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

A psychedelic yoga lesson with some beautiful and bizarre visuals.

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

"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...