Toshio Matsumoto

Toshio Matsumoto was born on 25 March 1932 in Nagoya. A graduate of the University of Tokyo in 1955, he joined Shin Riken Eiga that same year, where he made his first short film, then worked independently from 1958 on commissioned films that he pushed towards experimentation. His essays made him a theorist of avant-garde documentary, and he was a pioneer of video art. A professor and dean at Kyoto University of Art and Design, he presided over the Japan Society of Image Arts and Sciences and died in Tokyo on 12 April 2017.

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• CinemaFuneral Parade of Roses薔薇の葬列Toshio Matsumoto · 1969Cinema