Toshio Matsumoto Movies

  • 1990
    Old/New

    Old/New

    Old/New

    01990HD

    Toshio Matsumoto's video on decommunization in Eastern Europe.

    Old/New
  • 1969
    Ecstasis

    Ecstasis

    Ecstasis

    7.51969HD

    Repetitive abstract experimental film. A bearded man flickers past a hundred times.

    Ecstasis
  • 1981
    Connection

    Connection

    Connection

    6.41981HD

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

    Connection
  • 1974
    Fly

    Fly

    Fly

    01974HD

    Fly
  • 1984
    Vibration

    Vibration

    Vibration

    01984HD

    "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...

    Vibration
  • 1984
    Delay Exposure

    Delay Exposure

    Delay Exposure

    01984HD

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

    Delay Exposure
  • 1971
    Metastasis

    Metastasis

    Metastasis

    5.51971HD

    Writes Matsumoto, "I used the Erekutoro Karapurosesu (Electro Color Processor), which is mainly used in the field of medicine and engineering, to...

    Metastasis
  • 1955
    Silver Wheel

    Silver Wheel

    Silver Wheel

    01955HD

    A surrealist commercial for bicycles.

    Silver Wheel
  • 1982
    Shift

    Shift

    Shift

    7.31982HD

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

    Shift
  • 1957
    Caisson

    Caisson

    Caisson

    01957HD

    The film is a promotional film, recording the construction of a pressurized lockbox at the Hachinohe power plant in Aomori. Matsumoto's official...

    Caisson
  • 1978
    Enigma: Nazo

    Enigma: Nazo

    Enigma: Nazo

    71978HD

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

    Enigma: Nazo