Again, the red lips, the worried eyes, the dark eye, enter the dark eye and stop right there in the darkness…

Now replace Saul Bass’s galaxies of mystery with the opening of this video, which concerns a tiny section of a mouse’s brain…

See what I see? After the smoothness of a beautiful face, we enter the mess of a mammalian brain.

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...