You Are My Face

You Are My Face is an experimental documentary in which film professors choose an important or memorable scene from film history and re-perform the dialogue. Intercut with these performances is a separate thread documenting my lessons with a music teacher who is teaching me to play and sing the Wilco song, “You Are My Face” (Tweedy and Nels, 2007). Finally, a third layer provides an intersubjective dialogue between myself and a friend and colleague who also balances his role as a film professor with his life as a guitarist and musician.

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Journal
Sightlines Filmmaking in the Academy
Published
2025-08-15
DOI
https://doi.org/10.64139/sightlines.2025.007.009
Primary Topic
Cinema and Media Studies
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You Are My Face

Ben Mendelsohn
Sightlines Filmmaking in the Academy
Cinema and Media Studies
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You Are My Face

Ben Mendelsohn
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Abstract

You Are My Face is an experimental documentary in which film professors choose an important or memorable scene from film history and re-perform the dialogue. Intercut with these performances is a separate thread documenting my lessons with a music teacher who is teaching me to play and sing the Wilco song, “You Are My Face” (Tweedy and Nels, 2007). Finally, a third layer provides an intersubjective dialogue between myself and a friend and colleague who also balances his role as a film professor with his life as a guitarist and musician.

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