Discovery of Image – The Era of Toshio Matsumoto

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Discovery of Image – The Era of Toshio Matsumoto (2017)

Name: Discovery of Image – The Era of Toshio Matsumoto
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2017
Duration: 700 min

Directed by Takefumi Tsutsui

Documentary · 11h 40m

A five-part documentary chronicling Toshio Matsumoto, the legendary filmmaker known as a pioneer of experimental cinema in Japan and also active as a film theorist, who exerted a profound influence on innovative film expression from the 1950s onward. Directed by filmmaker and critic Takefumi Tsutsui—himself both a filmmaker and critic like Matsumoto—the project was filmed over the course of ten years. Interweaving excerpts from Matsumoto’s works with an extensive series of interviews with collaborators and critics, the documentary retraces, through the figure of Matsumoto, the tumultuous decades from the 1950s to the 2000s across five parts, totaling 700 minutes.