Two Truths and a Lie (2020)
20:30 minute animated video vwritten and produced by Yifan Jiang and James J.A. Mercer.
After receiving a name from its grandmother, a baby is faced with the prospects of knowledge, love, and death in a game of two truths and a lie. Over a 20-year timeline, the baby journeys across the globe, giving away three aspects of itself to three others. Two Truths and a Lie is created as a mix of hand-drawn elements and digital animation, most of which is generated in Photoshop in the mode of an animated GIF and supplemented with processing programming.
Installation view
(Wallach Gallery, Columbia university, New York, NY)
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