Avant-Garde Documentary - The Thing & Artists - Toshio Matsumoto

Film director, video artist and film theoretician, Toshio Matsumoto was a pioneer of Japanese 1960s experimental cinema. Pursuing documentary filmmaking, he produced radical and provocative short and feature films, while at the same time theorising the documentary form in his critical writing. In the late 1950s, he collaborated with the collective Jikken Kobo (Experimental Workshop), soon integrating avant-garde elements into his documentary practice. In his influential essays and experimental films, Matsum