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Volume 12, Issue 2
  • ISSN: 2042-7824
  • E-ISSN: 2042-7832

Abstract

In both Qiu Yang’s and Sameh Alaa’s , a face-to-face encounter takes place between a distraught main character and a beloved they have lost. Even though the one deals with while the other with , 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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Keyword(s): address; address-ability; face; imagination; response; response-ability; witnessing
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