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