Toshio Matsumoto Movies

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

A surrealist commercial for bicycles.

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

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 psychedelic yoga lesson with some beautiful and bizarre visuals.

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

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

Pictures from a Buddhist temple cut up and manipulated.

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

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

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

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

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,...

Documentary about the relationships between mothers and their children.

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...

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

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

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