Face of the Earth
1974, English. Directed by Vito Acconci.
In Face of the Earth, Acconci's face becomes a metaphorical theater for a narrative drama of the mythic American landscape. Eyes closed, his face filling the screen in extreme close-up, the camera looking up from his chin, he inhabits a dreamlike, intensely theatrical space. Alternately humming and whispering, Acconci begins an oddly poetic, hypnotic monologue, a stream-of-consciousness fantasy of a gunfighter in the American West. "As if I were riding in from over the mountains... Where did I come from?" His fingers run over the landscape of his face in the rhythm of a galloping horse, or caress it as the narrative tension builds. With language as a catalyst, he conducts a riveting examination of his own identity through American cultural mythologies.
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- 0h 22m
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- English
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Face of the Earth runs 22 minutes (0h 22m).
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Face of the Earth isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 1974. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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Who directed Face of the Earth?
Face of the Earth (1974) was directed by Vito Acconci.