A young Jose Torres
strikes a pose.
Original
Title: Jose Torres
Year: 1959
Running Time:
25 min
Country:
Japan
Director:
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Screenwriter:
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Music: Toru
Takemitsu
Cinematography:
Hiroshi Teshigahara (B&W)
Cast: Jose
Torres, Cus D’Amato
Producer:
Teshigahara Productions
Genre:
Documentary | Biography | Boxing | Half-length Film | Sports Documentaries
Synopsis/Plot:
Teshigahara
studied under Kamei Fumio and demonstrated his belief that documentary is a
subjective creation by its director in his short film Jose Torres (1959). His subsequent documentaries and dramatic
features have been stripped of all trace of the emotion and lyricism that could
have accompanied the creation of such dramatically-composed works from the
clearly-defined perspective of the filmmaker. The filmmaker uses his aesthetic
sense to pick out fragments of reality, the recombination of which transforms
abstract concepts into images. These unique qualities of Teshigahara’s
filmmaking polish his subjects’ beauty further without making any concessions
to commercialism, thanks perhaps in part to Teshigahara’s position as the head
of the Sogetsu school of Japanese flower arrangement. Endowed with both a gift
and the environment in which to express it, Teshigahara was in as sense a
fortunate, pure-cultured successor to postwar avant-garde art.
The
aforementioned information is reproduced from the website of Film Affinity.
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