The next three screenings of the Philm Club will revolve around the question of how our face figures in our personal identity and in our relations with others. At the same time, the face is what forbids us to kill.” (Emmanuel Levinas: Ethics and Infinity, 85-86) The face is exposed, menaced, as if inviting us to an act of violence. It is the most destitute also: there is an essential poverty in the face the proof of this is that one tries to mask this poverty by putting on poses, by taking on a countenance. It is the most naked, though with a decent nudity. “The skin of the face is that which stays most naked, most destitute.