Ātman (1975 film)

Ātman (Japanese: アートマン, Hepburn: Ātoman) is a 1975 Japanese experimental short film directed by Toshio Matsumoto.[2] The film depicts a figure sitting in an outdoor environment and wearing a robe and a Hannya mask.[3][4] The film features receding and shifting images captured in a frame-by-frame manner; though these shots resemble zooms and pans, they were actually derived from positioning the camera on a series of a points.[4][5]

Ātman
Directed byToshio Matsumoto
Cinematography
Music byToshi Ichiyanagi[1]
Release date
  • 1975 (1975)
Running time
11 minutes
CountryJapan
A frame from Ātman

Reception

In 1978, a writer for the Millennium Film Journal called Ātman "an intricately constructed film", and compared it to Michael Snow's Wavelength (1967) and Hollis Frampton's Travelling Matte (1973).[4]

The techniques Matsumoto used in this film were influential on his student Takashi Ito.[6]

References

  1. Bouhours, Jean-Michel (1996). L'art du Mouvement: Collection Cinématographique du Musée National d'Art Moderne, 1919-1996 (in French). Musée National d'Art Moderne. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
  2. King, Loren (14 April 2013). "Circle of life". The Boston Globe. Boston, Massachusetts. p. N13. Retrieved 17 January 2023 via Newspapers.com.
  3. Belina & Kožul 2005, pp. 149: "Maska s dva kratka roga ic zvana Hannya predstavlja ženskoga demona ljubomore i gnjeva, kojeg c se često koristilo u nô drami".
  4. "Millennium Film Journal". Millennium Film Journal. No. 2. 1978. p. 88. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
  5. Belina & Kožul 2005, pp. 149: "Čak i ako se djevojka ne pomiče, vidimo pretjerano kretanje slika na ekranu. Dojam toga pokreta stvoren je kamerom sličicu po sličicu".
  6. Nishijima, Norio (1996). "The Ecstasy of Auto-machines". In Bouhours, Jean-Michel (ed.). L'art du mouvement: Collection cinématographique du Musée national d'art moderne, 1919–1996 (in French). Centre Georges Pompidou. ISBN 978-2858509027. Retrieved 5 May 2022.

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