Mix not truth with falsehood, nor conceal the truth while you know the truth!

Mix not truth with falsehood, nor conceal the truth while you know the truth!

I may be duplicating this piece, but it is worth it for a few reasons, at least.

"Mix not truth with falsehood, nor conceal the truth while you know the truth!" reflects a concept so important to the future. Nukes, biohazards, Bush's "weapons of mass destruction" and now his focus on Iran, these are good reasons to consider this concept. Getting the truth amid corporate news outlets can be nearly impossible. Remember their flag waving and gung-ho approach to reporting the news on Bush's WMDs?

This is political art, propaganda. This propaganda does what propaganda ought to do. It helps to persuade the viewer-listener to consider the primal importance of truth and truth telling. How do I know this? I feel it. It's intuitive. I feel it, I "know it" with the same center-of-knowing as I intuited that George Bush would be trouble for the World when he proclaimed "Jesus Christ" as his "philosopher" during the so-called debates for president in 2002. (Jesus is devine, not a philosopher for anyone that missed this debate - - Bush was obvioiusly out of his league and not the one to represent the strongest nation on Earth, which he seems to prove whenever he opens his mouth!)

More though, the artistry here is so compelling. Notice the use of light and shadows. This black and white scenery adds to the value of the video's message, truth is black and white. For the Palestinians, the truth is that they are agrarian in mind and urban in existence; they are suppressed in a small area of the world and now manipulated beyond all hope, it appears. Truth to them is a matter of survival, as it is to most of us now. The World no longer has time for anything but truth, but truth is what we do not receive from our leaders. These are black and white matters, not gray areas.

I enjoy the fading in-and-out from front to back, back to front. This is a simple, but affective camera technique to help the viewer focus on the producer's concern at the moment, to add motion, change.

Note that these male singers are young, clean, well dressed, and that the building, its floors and columns appear well cleaned. The breeze blowing through the structure lifts the veils ever so lightly, giving the impression of motion, soft and inevitable change. These young men are impressive in their appearance as is the building. The entire scene is, frankly, beautiful, and these are terms that I seldom use, ever.

This arrangement struck me as more interesting when I finally got around to studying film and video production. Serious content needs to be black and white, obviously. And here the motion of the cameras seems to work so well with the motion of the set. Editing this piece must have been a work of love, I would think.

I am really touched by the content, which I cannot interpret (Boy would the laugh be on me!), but it is the title and manner of presentation of this entire piece that assures me their is Truth in this video.

I fear that without Truth, with a big "T," young men in troubled places will invoke their own kind of truth with WMDs for real.

Eddie Evans
Crime Scene Cleanup