There is nothing more intriguing than the hidden meaning behind the most obvious.  The human hand is one of those miracles which we completely take for granted.  The work of our hands, in their eloquence, silence, restlessness, creativity and violence, have moulded human history and continue to shape the present and future. Faces of the Hand  holds up the hand as a mirror to human nature and unveils some of the puzzling secrets which the hand holds locked within itself.

 

Faces of the Hand  takes you on a visual journey through different cultures and a range of human experiences, showing the many faces of our hands: working, communicating, creating, healing, worshipping, expressing love, or raised in aggression.

 

This film is both poetry and anthropology, science and art, sacred and profane; an odyssey from cave art of thirty millennia ago to robot hands controlled by computers.