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Encountering real and imagined faces in A Gentle Night and I Am Afraid to Forget Your Face
- Source: Short Film Studies, Volume 12, Issue 2, Sep 2022, p. 205 - 221
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- 03 May 2022
- 12 Jun 2022
- 01 Sep 2022
Abstract
In both Qiu Yang’s A Gentle Night and Sameh Alaa’s I Am Afraid to Forget Your Face, a face-to-face encounter takes place between a distraught main character and a beloved they have lost. Even though the one deals with storge while the other with eros, I argue that both of these Palme d’Or-winning short films, through the concealing, framing, covering and revealing of faces, encourage audiences to use their imaginations and, as a result, to enter into a face-to-face encounter with the short film as well.
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