Toshio Matsumoto Movies

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...

"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...

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

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...

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

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,...

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

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

Pictures from a Buddhist temple cut up and manipulated.

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

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

A five-part documentary chronicling Toshio Matsumoto, the legendary filmmaker known as a pioneer of experimental cinema in Japan and also active as a...

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

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

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

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

Toshio Matsumoto articulates his perspective on the creation of Dogra Magra, presented in the supplementary section of the Radiance DVD release.

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...

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

A psychedelic yoga lesson with some beautiful and bizarre visuals.