A Mask for Me, a Mask for You

A Mask for Me, a Mask for You

Documentary

1967 · 15 min

A lonely little black boy in Watts finds his way to the Watts Towers Arts Center and finds companionship and satisfaction in creating masks and other craft projects. This ethnographic documentary describes the thoughts of this boy who likes to hide behind the security of paper masks.

Directed by Ray Witlin

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