Toshio Matsumoto Movies

A psychedelic yoga lesson with some beautiful and bizarre visuals.

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

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...

'Ki or Breathing' is a spare concoction assembled from slow motion shots of nature and set to a score by the much-acclaimed Tohru Takemitsu.

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

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

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

Pictures from a Buddhist temple cut up and manipulated.

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

Repetitive abstract experimental film. A bearded man flickers past a hundred times.

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

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,...

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 flicker film made using only intense shock-zooms, Vibration is one of a series of films Matsumoto made in the 1980s that explored proprioception...