Electronic Arts Intermix: Toshio Matsumoto

Toshio Matsumoto

Overview

After college, Toshio Matsumoto began working at Shin-Riken Film Company and created Ginrin (1955), a progressive commercial film, in collaboration with the members of Jikken Kōbō or Experimental Workshop, an artist' group consisting of composers and artists. Since then, he has produced numerous experimental documentaries in addition to developing and publishing his own film theories. In the 1960s he started making experimental films and video art, influencing many other artists. Among his works are For the Damaged Right Eye (1968), Space Projection Ako (1970) for the Textiles Pavilion in Japan Expo '70, and Mona Lisa (1973). He has also directed commercial films, including Funeral Parade of Roses (1969) and Dogura Magura (1988). His book Eizō no hakken: Avangyarudo to dokyumentari (Discovery of Image: Avant-garde Documentary) was published in 1963 and republished in 2005.

Titles

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Metastasis

1971, 8 min, color, sound

Magnetic Scramble

1968, 30 sec, b&w, silent

Vital Signals: Early Japanese Video Art

2010, 162 min, color and b&w, sound, DVD

Computer Movie No. 2

1969, 8 min, b&w, sound

Image Modulator

1969, 45 sec, color, sound

Ooi and Environs

1977, 1:30 min, color, sound

Metastasis

1971, 8 min, color, sound

Oh! My Mother

1969, 14 min, color, sound

Camera, Monitor, Frame

1976, 17:15 min, b&w, sound

Hand No. 2

1976, 7:50 min, b&w, silent

Magnetic Scramble

1968, 30 sec, b&w, silent

Under A Bridge

1974, 13 min, b&w, sound

What a Woman Made

1973, 10:50 min, b&w, sound

Kick The World

1974, 15 min, b&w, sound

Eat

1972, 1:30 min, b&w, sound

Digest of Video Performance, 1978-1983

1978-1983, 15:35 min, color, sound

Lapse Communication

1972-1980, 16 min, color, sound

Image of Image-Seeing

1973, 11:20 min, b&w, sound

The Recognition Construction: Hyojyutsu (Against Application or Mimesis)

1975, 20 min, color, sound