Faceless Town
Contains AI-assisted elements
2025–2026 20 min 47 sec AI-generated imagery and game-engine animation 16:9, 4K Ultra HD, 30 fps, single-channel colour video with sound Chinese dialogue, with Chinese or English subtitles A young man, with no particular destination in mind, stumbles upon a remote valley. It appears on no map and is known to no one, as though forgotten by the world. Within the valley stands a quiet town whose inhabitants have smooth, featureless faces. Nothing in their way of life resembles that of the outside world. In recounting his experience, the young man calls it “Faceless Town.” His testimony does not describe how he discovered the place, but everything that happened after he entered the town. Mysterious forces begin to emerge: slow, indistinct, and without warning, yet charged with the palpable sense of an unknown agency. Step by step, they compel the young man to confront the question: what does a “face” actually mean? Once witnessed, the scenes within this town can never be erased from memory. By the end, we still do not know who the young man really is, even though he is the only person in the town with a face. But is that really so?
