An Attempt to Describe the Measure of a Man (movie)
一寸法師を記述する試み- User score: 1
- Production country: Japan
- Producer: Shūji Terayama
- Production companies: Tenjo Sajiki
- Release date: 2/2/1978
- Run time: 19 min.
Movie description
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.
