Toshio Matsumoto Movies

Video began as a medium that inspired discovery. This art documentary traces the expressive roots of “media art” in Japan — works...

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

A 20-year-old drifter and a precocious 16-year-old girl slowly form a bond in a small town haunted by its wartime past.

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,...

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

A kaleidoskopic image of Andy Warhol, presumably found footage from some interview, is slowed down and played over sudden pangs of screeching white...

Documentary about the relationships between mothers and their children.

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

A psychedelic yoga lesson with some beautiful and bizarre visuals.

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

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

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

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...

An experimental short film from Toshio Matsumoto featuring Mona Lisa.

While extracting and polishing their blocks of stone, stonecutters used to say “the stone is coming to life". This paradox provided Matsumoto...

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

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,...