Hiroshi Sugimoto selects The Face of Another

Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara

1966 / 124min / 35mm

The great Tatsuya Nakadai plays Mr. Okuyama, a businessman disfigured beyond recognition in a freak industrial accident who, through the operations of his psychiatrist, is affixed with a lifelike mask molded from the features of a stranger—a miracle solution that in time becomes a curse, eroding Okuyama’s sense of self and resulting in a disturbing change in his personality. The third Teshigahara/Abe/Takemitsu collaboration, with Woman in the Dunes cinematographer Hiroshi Segawa here doing uncanny, unforgettable work.

HIROSHI SUGIMOTO
Working in photography since the 1970s, Hiroshi Sugimoto’s multidisciplinary practice includes sculpture, performing arts production, and architecture. His work explores history and temporal existence by investigating themes of time, empiricism, and metaphysics. Sugimoto examines the ways photography can record traces of invisible but elemental forces.

Distributor: Janus Films

Part of Fraenkel Gallery Presents