Untitled Human Mask

The Human Mask film is inspired by a real situation in Japan in which a monkey wearing the mask of a young woman has been trained to work as a waitress The film opens with footage of the deserted site of Fukushima in 2011 the camera functioning as a drone scaling the wreckage This is followed by scenes of the monkey alone in her habitat silhouetted against the empty dark restaurant In this dystopian setting an animal acts out the human condition trapped endlessly repeating her unconscious role