Faces of the Hand
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There is nothing more intriguing than what is hidden behind the obvious. The human hand is a miracle which we completely take for granted. The work of our hands, in their eloquence, silence, restlessness, creativity, and violence, have made human history and continue to shape the present and future.
FACES OF THE HAND takes you on a visual journey through different cultures and a range of human experiences and shows the many faces of our hands; working, communicating, creating music, expressing our sensuality, and used as weapons for defense or aggression, and as instruments for healing and worship.
This film is both poetry and anthropology, science and art, sacred and profane; an odyssey from cave art thirty millennia ago to robot hands controlled by computers.
'In under half an hour, this superbly shot and edited video manages, with minimal narration, to convey the enormous physiological complexity of the hand, its vast flexibility, and its uses across cultures as an instrument of creation, healing, aggression, communication, and tenderness. An extraordinarily moving work that reveals poetry and wonder in the everyday world.' Gary Handman, American Libraries
'A fascinating and lyric journey...Of excellent quality, it is suitable for a wide range of ages from grade school through university. It would be particularly relevant in courses on anthropology or communication, and would also serve well in courses on art or history.' Rebecca S. Graves, MC Journal
'An amazing combination of science, poetry, and anthropology' Cultural Survival Quarterly
Citation
Main credits
Wormser, Tamás (film director)
Wormser, Tamás (screenwriter)
Martin, Kent (film producer)
Adams, Lynne (narrator)
Other credits
Cinematography, Kent Nason; editor, Denise Beaudoin; music, Erich Kory.
Distributor subjects
Anthropology; Children's Films; Communication; Diversity; Humanities; Language Arts; Multicultural Studies; Psychology; Social Psychology; Social Studies; World CulturesKeywords
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If you want
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to offer you for
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the mind thinks and the hand brings
life manifesting the thought
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materializing the feeling what divine power
lies in our hand that transforms the past.
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Into the
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Thirty thousand years ago
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all around the world people seal
their essence into the stone hands.
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Was the development of the
opposable thumb nature perfected
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the human body the hand gave
to this naked helpless animal
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the opportunity to survive
to communicate and to change
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nature Ever since nothing has
been safe from these hands.
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Be
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Deprived
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of the touching hand
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the newborn with dye touch is
the mother of all our census
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Through exploring hand we
learned how to grasp and how to
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let go we discovered the
limits of the material world
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What is it in our hands that
makes them almost valuable
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tool the precious servants
of a mind and soul
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The hand is designed to perform
both coarse and delicate movement.
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This requires a complicated anatomy
involving a core of rigid bones moved by
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muscles as you can see
we have three bones in
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her fingers and you can
cook your fingers and
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see these three bones there
are three phalanges.
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Now the other bones that we see
in the skeleton of the hand are
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covered with a lot of tissues
in the body so that that is
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the main part of our
hand and these bones are
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called the metacarpals and
they end at your knuckles
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so when you\'re bending your knuckles
you\'re ending your Medicare your bending
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your metacarpals Against your
failing G\'s of your fingers.
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The muscles for giving
you strength have to be
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large so they\'re tucked
away in the upper part of
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the forearm and they have
long slender tendons
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which come down and attach
to the bones of the fingers.
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What\'s in the hand is just a very
strong flexible tendon and when
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the muscle shortens up at the top of the
forearm it pulls on this tendon and
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this will flex the fingers The ball of your
thumb is called the thenar eminence and
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in here we have several muscles
we have muscles which will move
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the thumb up or cross and
then underneath these
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there\'s a muscle that will bring the
thumb around which we call opposing
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the thumb which is of course as you
can realize a very important motion.
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You\'re bringing your thumb around
to face to your other fingers.
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This is an essential
feature of the human hand
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that we can grasp things and
delicately control our movement.
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Our whole culture is based on our hand
eye coordination and things that we do
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with our hands Okay
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Eighteen eighteen nineteen thirty
one true too extreme to be
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a fairly
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wealthy people
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Hands I commend my spirit.
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For though has redeemed
me O Lord God of two
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A lot
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of our case
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in our case here Stan
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this creativity iterate through a list Whoa
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whoa
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whoa
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I got it
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Like that
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And
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there are a
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variety of ways that
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offers education rather than as I said
just go call to port your packets. product
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over here I\'ve got a vos event essay
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about another even better
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if we ask the advertisers
are passing out was packed
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Yes And
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hence opens up the universe.
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Inside you. Hence give
us a clue as to where
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we stand on the pathway of an evolution
lines are our thinking patterns.
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These are major lines reveal our
subconscious trend when you dive into them
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than the whole outer universe
opens up to you and you\'ll
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begin Recognize that if we really live
in what a beautiful world we live in
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a very very good thing
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Everything in the universe
changes we are constantly in
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motion as the mind changes so does the
thinking affects the lines and therefore.
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Those changing process
of lines are giving us
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the clue as to what the person is doing
wrong and how the person can do right
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that is the most important aspect
which Can help people to recognize
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their palm history they study is not discard
your fortune telling in fact is they
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study how do learn command
neuron fortune yourself
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as we will discuss today
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And I\'m going to turn
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around I believe him to be the finest
surgical instrument ever invented.
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I\'m amazed all the time
patients come to the office
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after they\'ve had a head
injury and they say I had
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no idea how dependent I went on my hand
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through so they\'re functionally
very important in everyday life.
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They\'re anatomically Interesting And surgically
there are challenged with very delicate.
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Very delicate tissue.
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Because we\'re busy part of the problem
faster and at this point per operation
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as quick as a field make sure
there\'s no really quickly left
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in are you doing
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with your sense of the good
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Really noting
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that while
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we are here and that\'s why we have hands
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So when I buy
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a day so today it is valid
for a room railway.
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Political theory in a room
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that we have our obey known locally
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My hand is still feel name some
people would call it Quantum
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them you don\'t realize
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are important your two hands are In
every little action that you do.
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Until the day you lose
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one
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Hence
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are the interpreter
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of my idea of perfection.
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I build violins the same
way they used to make
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them 200 years ago with
the same kind of tools.
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Nowadays we hardly use our hands anymore
manual work is becoming so rare that someday.
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People will beg us to have
something made by hands
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Okay Our fingers hover just
the extension of our soul.
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So there\'s a straight connection
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whatsoever I feel my fingers just fold
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Okay
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To
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Attach the piece
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it\'s often more important than
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proceed I pledged to shape us clay and
my fingers can feel the form inside it
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You are lucky country when
with an incredible sensitivity
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Or
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Noise ancient hand
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gestures muthos expression of any states
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to the secret language we communicate with
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visualize Botha to free all
sentient beings The suffering
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We live in an age of illusory progress.
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Where the machine has taken
work out of our hands
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Other animals have one defense
which they cannot exchange for
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another but a man can have many defenses.
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For the hand is clock and who
and horn in Spear and sword.
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The motion is constant we can depart
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and put the hands Is permanent
forever transforming.
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Creating the link between generations
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the echo of the tiniest touch
smallest gesture remains
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Yes
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So
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She turns
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around
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Okay