TRAFO

Mug shots, the informal term for police or booking photographs, show the suspected lawbreaker in a severe frontal or side view. "To mug" means "to make faces," and the noun "mug" can be defined as "fool" or "blockhead" and also "face" or "kisser," mirroring how the short film TRAFO, which focuses on the human face, is pregnant with meaning.

From the very beginning Horn´s 12-minute film oscillates between the criminal and the fool who makes faces: The countenances of three men and three women, forced into categories for the purpose of criminological classification, soon start acting up. A shriek rings...