FACELESS

A film by Manu Luksch

Science Fiction l Austria/UK l 2007 l 50 min l colour l Digital

written & directed by Manu Luksch
voice: Tilda Swinton
choreography: The Ballet Boyz
soundtrack: Mukul
piano music: Rubert Huber
camera: CCTV in private-public spaces in London
producers: Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu, Gabriele Kranzelbinder, Manu Luksch, Mukul Patel
produced by AMOUR FOU & Ambient Information Systems

supported by Arts Council England, Innovative Film Austria, ISIS Arts

Distribution & Sales: Sixpackfilm

International Premiere: pixelACHE Helsinki 2007

web l bio l press l stills l excerpt l trailer

In an eerily familiar city, a calendar reform has dispensed with the past and the future, leaving citizens faceless, without memory or anticipation. Unimaginable happiness abounds - until a woman recovers her face. First she panics, but then, with the help of the Spectral Children, she slowly finds out more about the lost power and history of the human face and begins the search for its future.

London has the highest density of CCTV on earth. Faceless uses recordings from these cameras, obtained under the UK Data Protection Act, as 'legal readymades' to construct a strange yet plausible world.

Festivals
Empreintes Numériques Toulouse, France (7.4. - 10.4.2010)
Raison d'Agir Festival Poitiers, France (25.3. - 27.3.2010)
[eye]identities @ Leokino Innsbruck, Austria (4.11. - 8.11.2009)
Perspektive Nürnberger Filmfestival der Menschenrechte Germany (30.9. - 11.10.2009)
Hors Pistes 2009 @ French Institute Tokyo, Japan (12.6. - 15.6.2009)
Internationales Frauenfilmfestival Dortmund, Germany (21.4. - 26.4.2009)
STAND-UP. Art about Human Right Festival Poznan, Poland (2.3. - 6.3.2009)
Rencontres Internationales Sciences & Cinémas Marseille, France (13.11. - 16.11.2008)
Hors Pistes 2008 @ Pera Müzesi Istanbul, Turkey (1.11. - 8.11.2008)
dokument ART Neubrandenburg, Germany & Szczecin, Poland (17.10. - 22.10.2008)
Cambridge Film Festival UK (18.9. - 28.9.2008)
Bangkok Experimental Film Festival Chiang Mai, Thailand (25.7.2008)
Bangkok Experimental Film Festival Phitsanulok, Thailand (11.6. - 14.6.2008)
Bangkok Experimental Film Festival Phuket, Thailand (7.6. - 8.6.2008)
Le Festival EXIT Creteil, France (4.4.2008)
Hors Pistes 2008 @ Centre Pompidou Paris, France (28.3. - 30.3.2008)
tranzit festival Praha, Czech Republic (26.3.2008)
Jonction Festival Bruxelles, Belgium (24.11.2007)
Ars Electronica Linz, Austria (5.9. - 11.9.2007)
Enter Unknown Territories Festival Cambridge, UK (25.4. - 29.4.2007)
pixelACHE Helsinki, Finland (29.3. - 1.4.2007)
Diagonale Graz, Austria (19.3. - 25.3.2007)

Screenings
CAMP Mumbai, India (26.1.2010)
School of Architecture CEPT University Ahmedabad, India (19.1.2010)
Surveillance Studies Centre: SCAN Kingston, Canada (15.1.2010)
The City College New York, USA (10.12.2009)
Université de Montréal Canada (3.12.2009)
Agnes Etherington Arts Centre Kingston, Canada (1.12.2009)
Cinecycle Toronto, Canada (26.11.2009)
ARGEkultur Salzburg Austria (21.11.2008)
Resonance FM Film Night London, UK (1.7.2008)
Filmavantgarde aus Österreich @ Phoenix Halle Dortmund, Germany (13.6.2008)
Programmkino Wels Austria (29.5., 1.6.2008)
Peacock Visual Arts Aberdeen, UK (6.5.2008)
Theatrical Release: Top Kino Wien, Austria (2.5. - 16.5.2008)
Kino Xenix Zürich, Switzerland (31.3. - 2.4.2008)
The Thameside Theatre Essex, UK (3.3.2008)
Quotidien sous contrôle @ La Ligue des droits de l'Homme Bruxelles, Belgium (12.12.2007)
Galerie im Taxispalais Innsbruck, Austria (31.10.2007)
Arts Academy Turku, Finland (2.4.2007)

Exhibitions
'No Visible Means of Escape' @ Nottingham Castle Museum UK (30.10.2009 - 10.1.2010)
'No Visible Means of Escape' @ Norwich Castle Museum UK (18.7. - 4.10.2009)
'Are the kids alright?' @ essential existence gallery Leipzig, Germany (27.3. - 24.4.2009)
'enter action - digital art now' @ ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum Denmark (6.2. - 26.4.2009)
'Surveillance and Discipline in Public Space' @ Kosovo Art Gallery Prishtina, Kosovo (18.12.2008 - 19.1.2009)
'Pixxelpoint 2008 - For God's Sake!' @ Mestna Galerija Nova Gorica, Slovenia (5.12. - 12.12.2008)
'Teleport Färgfabriken' @ Färgfabriken Östersund, Sweden (3.4. - 31.8.2008)
'Good Morning Paranoia' @ Galerie Motte et Rouart Paris, France (26.3.2008)
'Atlas of the Future' @ Centro di cultura contemporanea Firenze, Italy (7.2. - 29.2.2008)