is a 1975 Japanese

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directed by

Toshio Matsumoto (25 March 1932 – 12 April 2017) was a Japanese film director and video artist. Early life Matsumoto was born in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan and graduated from Tokyo University in 1955. Career Matsumoto’s first short was '' Ginrin' ...

Film

The film depicts a figure sitting in an outdoor environment and wearing a robe and a ''Hannya'' mask. The film features receding and shifting images captured in a frame-by-frame manner; though these shots resemble zooms and

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, they were actually derived from positioning the camera on a series of a points.

Reception

In 1978, a writer for the '' Millennium Film Journal'' called ''Ātman'' "an intricately constructed film", and compared it to

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's ''

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'' (1967) and Hollis Frampton's ''Travelling Matte'' (1973). The techniques Matsumoto used in this film were influential on his student Takashi Ito.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ātman (film) 1975 films 1970s avant-garde and experimental films 1975 short films Japanese avant-garde and experimental films Japanese short films Films directed by Toshio Matsumoto