An Attempt to Describe the Measure of a Man (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.

Released

1978-02-02

Genres

Animation, Romance

Runtime

19 min

Status

Released

Directed / written by

Shūji Terayama, Shūji Terayama, Rio Kishida

TMDB rating

1.0/10 from 2 votes