Expansion
Expansion remixes the images of Matsumoto’s Esctasis into an more colourful psychedelic short.
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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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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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By cutting up and zoom in on images of facades creates Matsumoto visual effects.
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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 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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"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 is the first video work by Toshio Matsumoto. Here, the artist manipulates television images (of student demonstrations against...
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Avant garde/experimental film. A mesmerizing trip through the psychedelic vastness of space.
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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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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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A surrealist commercial for bicycles.
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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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Pictures from a Buddhist temple cut up and manipulated.
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A documentary focusing on the things and animals necessary for the Olympics in Tokyo in 1964.
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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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