Untitled (Human Mask)
A macaque monkey, trained to work as a waitress at a restaurant in Japan, sits alone in a deserted dining hall. Waiting amid the dystopian setting for her moment to perform, the monkey seems trapped within her role, forced to enact the human condition.
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Runtime
19 min -
Country
France -
Year of Presentation
2015 -
Year of Production
2014 -
Director
Pierre Huyghe -
Cast
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Production Company
Anna Lena Films -
Berlinale Section
Forum -
Berlinale Category
Short Film
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Biography Pierre Huyghe
Pierre Huyghe studied at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. In 2001, he represented France at the Venice Biennale, where his pavilion Le Château de Turing won a special jury prize. In 2006, Huyghe performed at the Whitney Biennale in New York, the reopening of the ARC/MAM Paris and the Tate Modern with his film A Journey That Wasn't. Huyghe's films and video installations repeatedly deal with the various levels of reality of films that manifest, for example, through synchronisation or through changes in the social context. In Huyghe's Dubbing, the observer experiences the actual film only mirrored in the subtitles and the reactions of the filmed viewers. Huyghe lives and works in Paris.
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Filmography Pierre Huyghe
2006 A Journey That Wasn't | 2008 Blanche Neige Lucie | 2013 The Host and the Cloud