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Animation Night 2025

Mona Lisa(モナリザ)

Toshio Matsumoto
In the first ever use of the Scanimate video synth in Japan, Matsumoto takes the Mona Lisa on a journey through surreal landscapes, animating her into a shimmering psychedelic vision.
Filmstill Mona Lisa(モナリザ)
Filmstill Mona Lisa(モナリザ)

Mona Lisa(モナリザ)

Mona Lisa(モナリザ)
Toshio Matsumoto
Animation Night 2025
Animated Film
USA
1973
3 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None
Using the Scanimate video synthesizer, da Vinci’s portrait of Lisa del Giocondo embarks on a surreal journey through real and artificial landscapes. In doing so, Toshio Matsumoto projects a kind of fantasy world of electronic images, exploding colour and movement onto his subject, animating Mona Lisa into a shimmering psychedelic vision accompanied by an abstract electronic soundtrack.
Ben Sassen

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Director
Toshio Matsumoto