Face It! (Cast Your Self™)

All images are self-portraits shot through mirrors, and in all of them, the digital cameras hide the men's faces. Brynntrup's video, which was removed from YouTube due to its supposedly inappropriate nature, confronts its audience with the new privacy of the Web 2.0. (Impakt Festival Utrecht, May 2008).

Keywords

  • Love+: Sexuality
  • Made in Germany
  • Michael Brynntrup
  • Berlin
  • media
  • the edge
  • urban living

Actors

  • anonymous self-promoters

Director

  • Michael Brynntrup

Icons & Media Art

4min

16 FSK

DE

EN

Germany
2007
A short film by Berlin-based film icon Michael Brynntrup full of photographs collected from personal profiles in gay chat rooms on the internet.

A short film by Berlin-based film icon Michael Brynntrup full of photographs collected from personal profiles in gay chat rooms on the internet.


All images are self-portraits shot through mirrors, and in all of them, the digital cameras hide the men's faces. Brynntrup's video, which was removed from YouTube due to its supposedly inappropriate nature, confronts its audience with the new privacy of the Web 2.0. (Impakt Festival Utrecht, May 2008).

Festivals

Cast & Crew