print   back small lies, Big Truth 18:48 minutes, 1999 In turn funny, disturbing and glisteningly sensual, small lies, Big Truth is a video about love, relationships and the joys and banality of sex in the late 20th century. It also touches on such issues as morality, voyeurism, nature vs. culture and power, as eight people are heard reading, in the first person, from the testimony of Monica S. Lewinsky and William Jefferson Clinton as published in the Starr Report. These four couples include: an older man & a younger woman, Bill Raymond & Tracy Leipold; an older woman and a younger man, Joan Jonas & Ken Kobland; an older man and a younger man, Rodney Evans & David Watson; a younger woman and an older woman, Simin Farkhondeh & Kathy High. directed, shot, edited Shelly Silver sound mix Bill Seery, Mercer Street Sound film to tape transfer Bob Brodsky, Brodsky & Treadway music Just One Of Those Things by Cole Porter, performed by Louis Armstrong & Oscar Peterson supported by The Wexner Center for the Arts The Anonymous Was A Woman Foundation selected screenings & exhibitions PUBLIC AFFAIRS, Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland; Disturbing Desire, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii; History Lessons, Apex Gallery, NY; Jerusalem International Film Festival, Israel; New York Video Festival, Lincoln Center, NY; The Digital Underground, San Francisco Independent Film Festival; Women in the Director's Chair Int'l Film & Video Festival, Chicago, IL; Osnabruck Media Arts Festival, Germany; Thaw 00, Festival of Video, Film & Digital Media, Iowa City, Iowa; Media & Architecture Bienial, Graz, Austria; Mix Festival, NY; World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Mostra de Video Independent, Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona; Stuttgart Film Winter, Germany, Chicago Filmmakers Coop selected broadcasts Kunstkanaal/The Art Channel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands page top