An Attempt to Describe the Measure of a Man (1977)
Directed by Shūji Terayama · Cinematography by Tatsuo Suzuki
19 min5 frames
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Using bluescreen video techniques, Terayama playfully—and with a silent film theatricality—posits a series of postmodern vignettes featuring realities-within-realities as his protagonist attempts some kind of relationship with a nude woman on the screen-within-the-screen. In his struggles to “free” her, he exposes the absurd flimsiness, deceptiveness and mutability of both the cinema experience and our human dimension.
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