Wanted

In the archives of the Uppsala Institute for Racial Biology in Sweden, many photographs of faces are being kept that used to serve as research objects. In this department of Uppsala University the human races were classified on the basis of their external features. The institute was closed in 1960, but to this day genetic engineering research is being carried out in the same building. According to the Finnish filmmaker Milla Moilanen there is no substantial difference between the controversial racial biology and genetic engineering. With the aid of animation techniques, putting photographs and 2D and 3D films over each other in layers, the faces and limbs of Africans, Inuit and Asians blend into one another, sometimes even like a graceful dance. In the process, the faces are finally revived, after being kept for years solely for their countenance. (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam)