Toshio Matsumoto Movies

Pictures from a Buddhist temple cut up and manipulated.

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

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....

"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...

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

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

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,...

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

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

Video began as a medium that inspired discovery. This art documentary traces the expressive roots of “media art” in Japan — works...