Movie: The Reading Machine

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Momo Yaguchi
Momo Yaguchi

Takeshi Wakamatsu
若松武史

Keiko Niitaka
新高恵子

Toshihiko Hino
Toshihiko Hino

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    In this Borgesian satire on knowledge and technology, bibliophilic desire leads to the construction of a pedal-powered reading machine. Resembling a combination of gymnastic contraption, printing press and early cinematic apparatus, the machine’s purpose remains ambiguous. And like this machine, Terayama’s film connects his work in poetry, motion picture and graphic design by weaving together printed and projected, still and moving images.

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    1977-12-11

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