Timecode of a Face
eBook - ePub

Timecode of a Face

  1. 144 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Timecode of a Face

About this book

What did your face look like before your parents were born? Who are you? What is your true self? These are the questions in Ruth Ozeki's mind as she challenges herself to spend three hours gazing into her own reflection, recording every thought and detail.

What follows are a lifetime's worth of meditations on race, ageing, family, death, the body, self-doubt and, finally, acceptance. In this profound encounter with memory and the mirror, Ozeki weaves together personal history, professional experience, Zen philosophy, Japanese culture and more to paint a rich, intimate and utterly unique portrait of a life as told through a face.

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Table of contents

  1. Prologue: A Koan
  2. Time Code 00:00:00
  3. The Experiment
  4. Time Code 00:10:12
  5. Optical Orientation
  6. Time Code 00:17:28
  7. Original Face
  8. Time Code 00:34:12
  9. Jumpers
  10. Time Code 00:49:02
  11. Silence
  12. Time Code 00:55:43
  13. Zen
  14. Time Code 00:57:26
  15. Obsessions
  16. Time Code 01:00:19
  17. Masks
  18. Time Code 01:05:24
  19. Princess Upside-Down Hair
  20. Time Code 01:13:57
  21. Public Face
  22. Time Code 01:39:03
  23. Ordination
  24. Time Code 02:00:07
  25. Humor
  26. Time Code 02:25:17
  27. Deathbed
  28. Time Code 02:31:11
  29. Face-To-Face
  30. Time Code 02:38:41
  31. Mise En Abyme