Magical History Tour Close-up: The Face

Faces look at you — everywhere! Visual communication would lack a pivotal element without the representation of the human physiognomy, with the career of facial images in the 20th century being inconceivable without cinema and close-ups. The versatility of the filmic depiction of the face — from the perfectly lit, subjectivizing, and identity-shaping shots of the star's countenance to the de-individualized motif "face" — is at the center of the Magical History Tour in September and October. It starts with a selection of films featuring the most various "stars", whose faces — going beyond their function as a carrier of meaning and attention, as the most prominent interface between inside and outside and the scene of big, often disturbing emotions — have time and again become the projection screen of the audience's dreams.