Movies: Toshio Matsumoto

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

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

Writes Matsumoto, "I used the Erekutoro Karapurosesu (Electro Color Processor), which is mainly used in the field of medicine and engineering, to create moving image textures Metastasis, I was interested in layering images of a simple object and its ...

"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 through a mixture of minimalist effects and modernist architecture." - filmlinc.org...

In Relation, the focus of the viewer’s attention is guided by pointers moving through the screen....

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

"Set to a soundtrack of pulsing synth bleats, Delay Exposure rhythmically deploys a low-tech, in-camera tricks—including lens-flares, whip-pans, and rapid, strobing exposure shifts—to builds an affective sense of place and architecture." - filmlinc.o...

Matsumoto's last video was produced by Sano Gallery. Matsumoto set the common theme as “Seeing” in 2009, six co-writers participated to directing the omnibus film, "Seeing". Initially, there were no plans to expand it into trilogy, and Matsumoto was ...

A mesmerizing trip through the psychedelic vastness of space....

Magnetic Scramble is the first video work by Toshio Matsumoto. Here, the artist manipulates television images (of student demonstrations against the U.S.-Japan Security Pact) by holding a magnetic coil next to the monitor. Matsumoto later incorporate...

A paranoid girl is haunted by the frightening manifestations of her hypnophobia. She is at odds with the waking world as she attempts to get away from the decaying figure in black....

Toshio Matsumoto articulates his perspective on the creation of Dogra Magra, presented in the supplementary section of the Radiance DVD release....