Film
An Attempt to Describe the Measure of a Man
Japan- Director
- Shūji Terayama
- Year
- 1978
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.
Top cast
Directed by
Shūji Terayama
Written by
Shūji Terayama, Rio Kishida
Produced by
Eiko Kujo
