Lost in Face

A documentary by Valentin Riedl | 90 min | 2020

Carlotta cannot recognize faces, not even her own. For her, human faces are not places of trust, but gray bastions that frighten and confuse. Like 1% of all people, the very region of her brain that actually processes faces is blind. In his film LOST IN FACE, neuroscientist Valentin Riedl wanders through Carlotta's spheres full of anthromorphic animals, lucid dreams and bumpy aberrations. He gradually unveils her idiosyncratic charming solutions with which Carlotta repeatedly tries to swim along in the stream of human conformity, until one day she decides to leave the world of humans with a self-built ship. On her restless search, she finally finds access to her own face in art and feels her way back to her fellow human beings.

"As a brain researcher and film artist, Valentin manages to combine abstract science with the art form of film, thus opening up an insight into a new world for us."

- Wim Wenders

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