History’s Most Notorious Liars
A video
This video proved particularly difficult to cobble together.
It discusses five compulsive and remarkably shameless and destructive liars—two of whom were also among history’s most notorious dictators. These five men, therefore, displayed different varieties and degrees of malevolence but a remarkably similar—and similarly untiring, pervasive and unconscionable—mendacity.
I hope I was able to make that clear.
I have argued, that video as a medium—in particular fast-cut video—has great, as yet mostly unexplored, potential as a means of communicating and exploring ideas. But it is a heck of a lot easier to edit a sentence than it is to redo a section of video—especially when images and words are dancing around stream-of-consciousness-like, especially at my level of technological expertise.
I’ve been fiddling with these images of and words about my five liars for many weeks.
Curious what you think.
More “idea videos” on this site by Mitchell Stephens:
“Awe: A Total Eclipse of the Sun”