“Thus the black hole/white wall system is, to begin with, not a face but the abstract machine that produces faces according to the changeable combinations of its cogwheels. Do not expect the abstract machine to resemble what it produces, or will produce.”
The “Face” as black hole and white wall, or even white hole and black wall, is more than merely a face (close-up from Ivan the Terrible): “The abstract machine is therefore efffectuated not only in the faces that produce it but also to varying degrees in body parts, clothes, and objects that it facializes following an order of reasons” (175). In this case, the second image (Pickpocket) shows the hands of the pickpocket; hands which are facialized throughout the film.
