Toshio Matsumoto

Toshio Matsumoto’s video on decommunization in Eastern Europe.

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 ...

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 ...

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

Pictures from a Buddhist temple cut up and manipulated.

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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