telling lies by simon ellis

telling lies is a brilliant experimental video, although it does not have a great craft behind it the concept is brilliant. the film shows a black screen throughout the whole video while picking out a couple of phone conversation about a drunken night out. the film is brilliant because rather than telling us what the characters where saying they where telling us what they where actually thinking. i think this video has is superb becasue it shows that people are'nt always truthful and a brilliant exaple of this is when the main characters mum call her son and she askes him what wrong he tells her that his girlfrind and him have just split up however on the screen he is thinking it is none of her business. this continues throughout the whole film and it shows that people dont actually speak about what really on thier mind. the concept to this film is brillaint because we can relate to it and because the craft is low rather than us thinking of the video we read the words on the screen instead.