DECEIVE WITH BELIEF
EUTERPE • 16m
We are faking, lying, performing, stretching, translating, doctoring, manipulating, mistaking, working, earning, trying, reporting, deceiving, interpreting, demonstrating, sinking.
"We're surrounded by images. Most art is in a frame, you know it isn't real, it's in a frame. But in addition to just referring to being surrounded by images, it's to a feeling of being immersed in the scene, not being separate from the scene, not being an external viewer, of something that happens, but being part of it." - Dan Sandin (edited and taken out of context)
Commissioned for "Countering Fake News in Russia and the U.S." by Media Burn Video Archive
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