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] 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.