FACELESS uses CCTV images obtained under the terms of the UK Data Protection Act as ‘legal readymades’, as instructed by the artist’s MANIFESTO for CCTV Filmmakers . Legislation requires that the privacy of other persons be protected when data is released – for CCTV recordings, this is typically done by obscuring their faces – hence, the faceless world. Narrated by TILDA SWINTON, this film was translated into nine languages and written about internationally. Further info: https://manuluksch.com/project/faceless/

In a city controlled by an all-powerful automated state, a woman evades the law of surveillance cameras and escapes the system. Exclusively made from real footage provided by the controllers of the London surveillance system, Faceless is a highly relevant speculative fable, faithful to the classic codes of science fiction.