Dilohana Lekamge

A well-told lie (2024)

7 min 26 secSingle channel / Digital Video / Colour / Sound

A well-told lie explores the ability for an untruth to grow into myth as the fascination for it develops over time. The title is taken from Michael Ondaatje’s 1982 fictionalised memoir, where he states in the acknowledgements that "in Sri Lanka a well-told lie is worth a thousand facts." This narrated short film traverses three tales of speculations, thefts and falsehoods, with the understanding that the idea of place seen through the eyes of another is often distant from its truth. 

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