Toshio Matsumoto Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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