Toshio Matsumoto

The Devil In Mary (2018)

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 from the decaying figure in black. ...

Toro Axe Part 3: All Things Change (2012)

Matsumoto's last video was produced by Sano Gallery. Matsumoto set the common theme as "Seeing" in 2009, six co-writers participated to directing the omnibus film, "Seeing". Initially, there were no plans to expand it into trilogy, and Matsumoto was also l ...

Dissimulation (1992)

Old/New (1990)

Toshio Matsumoto's video on decommunization in Eastern Europe. ...

Dogra Magra (1988)

A young man kills his bride on the day of his marriage and goes insane. He wakes up in an asylum with no memory, left in the hands of two mysterious doctors who relate his condition with his biological identity. ...

Engram (1987)

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, movies inside of photos, and (even) a film director inside a TV set. ...

1986 Summer (1986)

A previously unseen short by the Japanese avant-garde titan, Toshio Matsumoto's 1986 Summer locates faces and bodies within superimpositions, zooms, a lightning-fast montage of brick structures and verdant trees. ...

Sway (1985)

Pictures from a Buddhist temple cut up and manipulated. ...

EE Control (1985)

It was produced to be exhibited at the "Personal Focus" (April 23-8, 1985), a three-minute, 8mm film screening held in Fukuoka. Digitized the original 8mm film that Matsumoto had been stored. The concept of this works is same as Delay Exposure, but in this ...

Wave (1984)

Delay Exposure (1984)

"Set to a soundtrack of pulsing synth bleats, Delay Exposure rhythmically deploys a low-tech, in-camera tricks—including lens-flares, whip-pans, and rapid, strobing exposure shifts—to builds an affective sense of place and architecture." - filmlinc. ...

Vibration (1984)

"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 through a mixture of minimalist effects and modernist architecture." - filmlinc. ...

Shift (1982)

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

Relation (1982)

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

Connection (1981)

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

Ki or Breathing (1980)

'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. ...

Kimoto (1980)

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

White Hole (1979)

A mesmerizing trip through the psychedelic vastness of space. ...

Enigma: Nazo (1978)

Enigma is something of a more glamorous version of White Hole, with a wide variety of elaborate textures (often composed of iconographic and religious symbols) converging towards the centre of the screen. ...

The War of the 16 Year Olds (1976)

A young drifter and a precocious sixteen years old girl slowly form a bond in a small town haunted by its wartime past. ...

Atman (1975)

ĀTMAN is a visual tour-de-force based on the idea of the subject at the centre of the circle created by camera positions (480 such positions). Shooting frame-by-frame the filmmaker set up an increasingly rapid circular motion. ĀTMAN is an early Buddhist ...

A Girl (1975)

Phantom (1975)

A psychedelic yoga lesson with some beautiful and bizarre visuals. ...

Everything Visible Is Empty (1975)

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, the film draws an explosion of visible forms, as if a sign of the shattering of shapes in the mundane world. ...

Murder Catalogue (1975)

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. Digitized a half-inch videotape he had kept in his studio. It is a work that shows the original form of a mys ...

Fly (1974)

Andy Warhol: Re-Reproduction (1974)

A kaleidoskopic image of Andy Warhol, presumably found footage from some interview, is slowed down and played over sudden pangs of screeching white noise. Warhol's own distorted, delayed, voice guides us through the gaseous hallucination. ...

Mona Lisa (1973)

An experimental short film from Toshio Matsumoto featuring Mona Lisa. ...

Expansion (1973)

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

Autonomy (1972)

Metastasis (1971)

Writes Matsumoto, "I used the Erekutoro Karapurosesu (Electro Color Processor), which is mainly used in the field of medicine and engineering, to create moving image textures Metastasis, I was interested in layering images of a simple object and its electr ...

Demons (1971)

Tells the story of the samurai Gengobe, who seeks revenge after falling prey to the schemes of a geisha and her husband. ...

Space Projection Ako (1970)

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 inside of the Textile Pavilion, a dome with an interior designed by Yokoo Tadanori, and featured a 57-channel ...

Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)

In 1960s Tokyo, Gonda owns a bar in which the gay, cross-dresser, and trans scenes meet. Gonda is in a relationship with the madam of the bar, Leda. As the younger Eddie starts a passionate affair with Gonda, she ignites the jealousy of Leda, unaware of an ...

Ecstasis (1969)

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

For My Crushed Right Eye (1968)

Two chaotic series of images, one for each eye. Hipster living, malformed fetuses, war, arts events and pop culture stands for the material. ...

Magnetic Scramble (1968)

Magnetic Scramble is the first video work by Toshio Matsumoto. Here, the artist manipulates television images (of student demonstrations against the U.S.-Japan Security Pact) by holding a magnetic coil next to the monitor. Matsumoto later incorporated this ...

Mothers (1967)

Documentary about the relationships between mothers and their children. ...

Nippon Express Carries the Olympics to Tokyo (1964)

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

Nichiray a la carte (1963)

Nippon Rayon has produced clothing of assorted colors, designs, and materials. Their nylon products are not limited to fashion but extend to all aspects of life. The film features shots of models wearing vibrant outfits as well as products being manufac ...

The Song of Stone (1963)

While extracting and polishing their blocks of stone, stonecutters used to say "the stone is coming to life". This paradox provided Matsumoto with the best metaphor for what making a film is all about. In his opinion, filmmakers work images in the same way ...

I'm Nylon (1962)

The Weavers of Nishijin (1961)

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

The Catch (1961)

Towards the end of WWII, a black American pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official instructions as to how to proceed with their 'catch'. ...

Record of A Long White Line (1960)

Early experimental PR "cine-poem" by Toshio Matsumoto. Commissioned by Kansai Electricity, the film paints an abstract, near-wordless retelling of the development of power stations in Japan, through to the presumed oncoming advent of nuclear power. ...

Security Treaty (1959)

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, archival footage, and impassioned narration to create an expressive, visceral criticism of the US-Japan Securi ...

300 Ton Trailer (1959)

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

Caisson (1957)

The film is a promotional film, recording the construction of a pressurized lockbox at the Hachinohe power plant in Aomori. Matsumoto's official first directorial debut at the Shinriken Motion Picture, the film found a 16mm film print stored in a civil lib ...

Silver Wheel (1955)

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 the Shin-riken Pictures, which had been contracted to produce the film, asked for the cooperation of Yamaguc ...

Under the Skin (2002)

A documentary on sixties counterculture in Japan featuring Donald Richie, Tadanori Yokoo, Masao Adachi, Koji Wakamatsu, Toshio Matsumoto and Akaji Maro among others. ...

Engram (1987)

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, movies inside of photos, and (even) a film director inside a TV set. ...