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An Attempt to Describe the Measure of a Man short film

Original title: Issun-bôshi o kijutsu suru kokoromi
Year: 1977
Running time: 19 min.
Country: Japan
Director: Shuji Terayama
Screenwriter: Shuji Terayama
Cast: Toshihiko Hino, Momo Yaguchi
Music: J. A. Seazer
Cinematography: Tatsuo Suzuki
Producer: Jinriki Hikoki Sha
Genre: Drama | Short Film. Surrealism. Experimental Cinema
Synopsis: 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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