Ātman (Japanese: アートマン, Hepburn: Ātoman) is a 1975 Japanese experimental short film directed by Toshio Matsumoto. The film depicts a figure sitting in an outdoor environment and wearing a robe and a Hannya mask.[2][3] 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.[3][4]

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).[3]

The techniques Matsumoto used in this film were influential on his student Takashi Ito.[5]

References

Bibliography

• Belina, Mirna; Kožul, Marina (2005). 25 FPS Internatnacionalni festival eskperimentalnog filma i videa, Zagreb, 21-25/09/05 (in Croatian). 25 FPS udruga za audio-vizualna istraživanja. ISBN 9789539518804. Retrieved 16 June 2021.

External links

• Ātman at IMDb