A Messenger From The Shadows (Notes on Film 06 A/Monologue 01)

The actor Lon Chaney (1893-1930) – son of deaf-mute and handicapped parents – was called The Man of a Thousand Faces because of his extraordinary mutability. He worked not only as an actor, but also wrote scripts, occasionally directed and created all his famous make ups himself. He appeared in 161 movies, all but one of them silent. Most of those films are lost. A Messenger from the Shadows is a surreal re-montage of shots from 46 films that have survived.