Toshio Matsumoto Filmes

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

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

Documentary about the relationships between mothers and their children.

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

A kaleidoskopic image of Andy Warhol, presumably found footage from some interview, is slowed down and played over sudden pangs of screeching white...

Pictures from a Buddhist temple cut up and manipulated.

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

Toshio Matsumoto's video on decommunization in Eastern Europe.

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

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

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

"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...

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,...

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

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....

An experimental short film from Toshio Matsumoto featuring Mona Lisa.