Face of Another - Kōbō Abe Hong Kong Drawing on archival sources

Drawing on archival sources

Prêtre' Director: Jean-Pierre Melville (1961) French w/ English subtitles

Dynamic and violent 'neo-western'

Shot in Super 16mm and featuring a quartet of nuanced

Face of Another - Kōbō Abe Hong Kong Drawing on archival sources'The Face of Another' by Kb Abe (Penguin Modern Classics 256 page paperback) The novel that inspired Hiroshi Teshigahara's (Woman in the Dunes) acclaimed 1966 film of the same name. A haunting parable of alienation and identity, following a scientist who fashions a lifelike mask to replace his disfigured face only to discover the monstrous freedom anonymity affords.