The Reading Machine

The Reading Machine

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 11, 1977

Runtime

0h 22m

User Score

30%

Original Title

書見機

Production Companies

Tenjo Sajiki

Director

Shūji Terayama

Description

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.