Skip to main content
Movie

Issun-bôshi o kijutsu suru kokoromi

An Attempt to Describe the Measure of a Man

1977 · Released · 19 min

Using bluescreen video techniques, it 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.

Sign in to track this title and mark episodes.

Comments

Sign in to join the conversation.