Expansion

Expansion

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

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EE Control

EE Control

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...

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300 Ton Trailer

300 Ton Trailer

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

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Shift

Shift

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

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A Girl

A Girl

Ki or Breathing

Ki or Breathing

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

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Enigma: Nazo

Enigma: Nazo

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

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Vibration

Vibration

"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...

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Magnetic Scramble

Magnetic Scramble

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

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White Hole

White Hole

Avant garde/experimental film. A mesmerizing trip through the psychedelic vastness of space.

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Space Projection Ako

Space Projection Ako

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...

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Autonomy

Autonomy

Engram

Engram

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...

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Silver Wheel

Silver Wheel

A surrealist commercial for bicycles.

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Dissimulation

Dissimulation

Record of A Long White Line

Record of A Long White Line

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

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Sway

Sway

Pictures from a Buddhist temple cut up and manipulated.

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Nippon Express Carries the Olympics to Tokyo

Nippon Express Carries the Olympics to Tokyo

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

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Security Treaty

Security Treaty

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...

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