Face

Face

Synopsis

"In the same year that Flowers was produced, I happened to make the acquaintance of Mario Montez, superstar of Andy Warhol's films and, whose name was taken after a one time Hollywood star, Maria Montez, and I was attached by his transvestite beauty. In addition to Mario's performance I also requested performances from Donna Kerness, who had appeared in the black comedy of the Kuchar brothers' underground films, and Linda who was a personal acquaintance. Fiction and reality collide in microscopic montage with the sexual performances limited to only facial expressions in extreme close-up of those three females (including Mario) while at the same time documenting the reality of life. These constructs were inherited from my earlier Love, but this time shot in colour and focusing on individual action. Perhaps the viewer's visual experience will be mixed, blurring the line between fiction and reality and will become one with life and sex. A big, laughing voice throughout the film may sound 'absurd', yet at the same time the nature of life fuses (or alienates for some) with the expression of sex." – Takahiko Iimura

With Mario Montez, Dona Kerness and Linda