CV
Sanpo　Matsumoto

Born and raised in Tokyo, Japan.
Film director,Screen writer,Music composer.
Screening / show at NYC,Paris,Tokyo,Montreal etc.
Ex- member of NYC based artist collective,Con Artist.
Collaborate & works with international artists from U.S. / EU / South America /Asia.

Prizes
"The Lift-Off Sessions" official selection (2019)
"First-Time Filmmaker Sessions" official selection (2019)
"Digital Big Screen Festival 2017 / Speculum Artium Festival 2017" official selection (2017)
"Freedom Sparks Festival"awards,Visual Voice Gallery (2010)
Cornerius Music clip contest, Warner Music Japan inc (2007)
The award of department of Imaging art and performing art at
Kyoto University of Arts and Design Graduation exhibition (2005)
Young Perspective (2003)
CAS Academy Award (2002)


Selected Screening events/exhibitions
2019_"URBAN SPIRIT(S)"/Lazy Susan Gallery/NY,USA(solo exhibition)
2019_"CONstitution: Con Artist Celebrates"/Con Artist/NY,USA(group exhibition)
2019_"Make Music NewYork 2019/"NY,USA(performance)
2019_ "ASP (Artist Support Project)" / JogJakarta,Indonesia(Artist in residents)
2018_"HALLOWEEN show" group show show/ Con Artist/NY,USA(group exhibition)
2018_WAK/Ottanta/Tokyo,Japan(performance)
2018_"Re-animated: Cartoons in Art" group show/ Con Artist/NY,USA(group exhibition)
2017_"Digital Big Screen Festival 2017" /Trbovlje,Slovania(Screening)
2017_"The $20 Art Show 2017" group show/ Con Artist/NY,USA(group exhibition)
2016_"God Hates Cats" group show/ Con Artist/NY,USA(group exhibition)
2016_"The Grocery Store" group show show/ Con Artist/NY,USA(group exhibition)
2016_"Break The Internet" group show show/ Con Artist/NY,USA(group exhibition)
2016_"Kill or Be Killed" group show show/ Con Artist/NY,USA(group exhibition)
2016_"Bullet'sen_vol.104"/Bullet's/Tokyo,Japan(performance)
2016_"Bullet'sen_vol.98"/Bullet's/Tokyo,Japan(performance)
2016_"Badass Botanicals" group show show/ Con Artist/NY,USA(group exhibition)
2016_"Interconnected" group show/ Con Artist/NY,USA(group exhibition)
2016_"I still heart NY" show/ Con Artist/NY,USA(group exhibition)
2015_"Slap 2"show/ Con Artist/NY,USA(group exhibition)
2015_"Conicon 3.0" show/ Con Artist/NY,USA(group exhibition)
2015_"THE $20 ART SHOW"/ Con Artist/NY,USA(group exhibition)
2015_"Make Music NewYork 2015"/NY,USA(performance)
2015_"LIMIT2015"/Bullet's/Tokyo,Japan(event organize, performance)
2014_BULLET'SEN Vol.83/Bullet's/Tokyo,Japan(performance)
2014_"Conicon 2.0"/ Con Artist/NY,USA(group exhibition)
2014_"Make Music NewYork 2014/"NY,USA(performance)
2014_"unLIMITed"/Bullet's/Tokyo,Japan(event organize, performance)
2014_"BULLET'SEN"/Bullet's/Tokyo,Japan(performance)
2014_"This must be the place"/Koen Shokudo/Kyoto,Japan(performance)
2014_"KAIJU ART Exhibition"/RESOBOX/NY,USA(International exhibition,curator,artist)
2013_"Comicom group show"/ Con Artist/NY,USA(group exhibition)
2013_"Make Music NewYork 2013"/NY,USA(performance)
2013_"Problematic"/Brooklyn Fire Proof/NY,USA(group exhibition)
2013_"Off The Queensboro Bridge, Meet Asian Artists in LIC"/RESOBOX/NY,USA(group exhibition)
2013_"SLAP: Adhesives & Egos a DIY Sticker Exhibit"/ Con Artist/NY,USA(group exhibition)
2013_"[The Gate]Sanpo Matsumoto show"Bluedata International Institute/NY,USA(visual art exhibition)
2012_"ONSA-Art & Music from the borders-/Floristy/NY,USA(event organize, performance)
2012_"GlobularCluster"/CakeShop/NY,USA(performance)
2011_-LIMIT presents-"Sanpo Matsumoto charity LIVE with DJ Yamaguchi"/Bullet's/Tokyo JP(event organize, performance)
2010_"LIMIT featuring POS-K records JAPAN TOUR 2010"Kyoto/Tokyo JP (event organize, performance and Screening)
2010_"Freedom Sparks Festival"/Visual Voice Gallery/ Montreal,Ca (Screening)
2010_"LIMIT03" Art event/Bullet's/Tokyo JP(event organize, performance)
2008_"Shin-Kyogoku Film Festival" Kyoto JP(Screening)
2008_WarShip-Roll Screening at smartdeli/Berlin DE(Screening)
2008_SHOXXX's PETIT Wonderland'PremArts/Berlin DE (performance)
2008_au chat noir /Paris FR
2008_RAMDAM AU ZORBA !!?/Paris FR
2008_le cercle rouge/Paris FR
2008_"DAS LABOR"/Berlin DE(artist in residence)
2007_"LIMIT02"Art event/Bullet's/Tokyo JP(event organize, performance and Screening)
2007_"LIMIT"Art event /Bullet's/Tokyo JP(event organize, performance and Screening)
2006_ "Osonae Okawari"Screening event/Tokyo JP (Screening)
2006_"Sotsugyo wa Shitakeredo"Screening event/Kyoto JP
(event organize and Screening)
2005_ Kyoto University of Arts and Design Graduation exhibition/Kyoto JP
2005_Design Festa/Tokyo JP
2005_"OsonaeDaisuki"Screening event/Tokyo JP (Screening)
2005_"Nishijin Machiya Studio"Screening event/Kyoto JP (Screening)
2005_"Point of View"ImageForumCinematheque Screening event
/Tokyo JP (Screening)
2005_Art beat Kyoto/Kyoto JP(performance)
2005_Seven Night Dreams Film Festival’’ Kyoto JP
2005_"JET"Screening event /Nagoya JP (performance)
2005_"Co-Exsist"Bullet’s/Tokyo JP (performance)
2005_"Bullet’s compilation"Metro/Kyoto JP (performance)
2004_"Nakano cream"Screening event/Tokyo JP (Screening)
2004_"Next Frame Nippon Film Festival"uplink/Tokyo JP (Screening)
2004_"Nishijin Machiya Studio"Screening event/Kyoto JP (Screening)
2004_"TEXT　TO　SPEECH"ImageForumCinematheque Screening event
/Tokyo JP (Screening)
2004_"cinema show case"/Tokyo JP (Screening)
2004_"Biwako biennial Art Festival"/Shiga JP (Screening)
2003_solo exhibition"Altogether Alone"/Tokyo JP (exhibition)
2003_"Honey Comb Exhibition"/Kyoto JP (group exhibition)
2003_"Nakano no Nakano"Screening event/Tokyo JP (Screening)
2003_"Young perspective 2003"ImageForumCinematheque Screening event
/Tokyo JP (Screening)
2003_"Cas Academy Awards Exhibision"Osaka Japan(Screening)
2003_TENT Film festival /Holland
2003_"The exhibition of Two video Artist"Kyoto JP (Screening)
2003_"TheLibrary2002"Kyoto JP (Screening)


Selected works
<Film>

2019_"The supreme delight"
7min　2019 narrative
Direct/Scenario/Edit/Sound by Sanpo Matsumoto
Actor/Kukuh Hermadir,Forrest Wong,Dewi Ayu Anggraeni

2018_"A life line" from "urban folklore" series
4min　2018 Animation Animation/Music by Sanpo Matsumoto

2017_"Alpaca" from "Day Dream" series
2min　2017 Animation
Animation/Music by Sanpo Matsumoto

2017_"A light of the city" from "urban folklore" series
2min　2017 Animation
Animation/Music by Sanpo Matsumoto

2016_"A Girl from Nowhere"from "urban folklore" series
2min　2016 Animation
Animation/Music by Sanpo Matsumoto

2014_"New York"music clip
2min 2014/ Music Video/found footage
Animation/Music/Directed by Sanpo Matsumoto
footage from New York in the 1920s

2014_"the SUNSET"
1min 2014/ animation
Animation/Music/Directed by Sanpo Matsumoto

2014_"The napping tale"
3min 2014/ animation
Animation/Sound/Directed by Sanpo Matsumoto
Drawing by Jackie Zhu

2011_"an Echo"music clip
5min 2014/experimental animation
Music by Josco
Edit/Directed by Sanpo Matsumoto

2010_"The ideal way to spend a holiday"
28min　2010 narrative movie
[actor]
Maki Nishiyama/Ryusuke Shibayama/Keiko Onishi　
Tilak Gyawali/Syuzo Kudo/Masashi Tokumaru
Hajime Fujiyama
[Art work]
Taisei Watanabe/Lucky　
[Staff]
Keiko Nishida/Ren Tatebori/Kanako Fukuda
[Assistant director]
Masashi Tokumaru
[Post production]
Totto
[Music]
ONUSSEN "back to the future"
Sanpo Matsumoto "Wolke"
Xtronic×Izumi&Jun× Sanpo Matsumoto "Josephine"
[support]
BAR & Cafe Tantei/Kyoto University of Arts and Design/department of Film
[Produce]
Sanpo Production
[Scenario][Music][Edit][Direct]
Sanpo Matsumoto.

2008_"WarShip-Roll"
4min/ animation
Animation/Sound/Directed by Sanpo Matsumoto

2006_"Scum"
38sec/ 8mm film & digital video
Music
CORNELIUS [sensuous]2006 warner records
Image by Sanpo Matsumoto

2006_"Tofu Life"
21min /narrative movie
Scenario/Music/Edit/Direct by Sanpo Matsumoto
Actor
Chise　Ushio / Yoshimitsu Araki
Norifumi Miyamoto / Yuuki Netsu / Hiroko Nishimoto

2005_"Humanity Circuit"
18min/ 2005 narrative movie
Scenario/Music/Edit/Direct by Sanpo Matsumoto
Actor
Yuuki Netsu
staff
Kanako Fukuda / Riki Toyama
Naoki Morizono /Toshi Winschermann
Yushiro Sagami / Mariko Koga

2004_"Beating Prayer"　
3min/ digital video
Sound/Image edit
Sanpo Matsumoto

2004_"The Sticky Diary"　　
9min/animation
Scenario/Music/Edit/Direct by Sanpo Matsumoto
Actor
Syuzo Kudo
Norifumi Miyamoto


2002_"Altogether Alone"
2min/8mm film & digital video
single channel video version and
video installation version
Sound/Image by Sanpo Matsumoto

<Music>
2018_"Dead Stucks"
2015_"Sentomental Breaks"POS-K records
2013_Fer Mercadal "Anejo EP"BASURA!discos (compilation)
2012_"Broken Mind" POS-K records
2011_"Berliner Spaziergang EP" POS-K records
2010_"Cities"compilation BASURA!discos (compilation)
2009_"BERTRAND LOUIS [ Novembre Hypermarche REMIX ]"POS-K records (compilation)
2009_ "ONUSSEN [ rectoverso ]" Second Family records
2009_"RakugoBoy Remixes" POS-K records (compilation)
2008_"Tokyo"POS-K records
2005_"TV no SAMRAI"
2004_"film music vol.1"