F for Fake (1973), Close-Up (1990), and A Midsummer Night's Dream (1595). Three works that highlight the lack of a true divide between reality and reality. In a final scene of F for Fake, Orson Welles speaks of how a charlatan tries to make fiction real - professional liars are servants to truth in that they make art defined as lies that make us realize the truth. Close-Up (1990) is a film with similar themes of unreality. It entirely blurs the lines of what is fiction and who are actors. All the world's a stage right? Shakespeare made the fictional performers become the audience, our lives a collection of plays we are players in, as well as linking dreams to the waking world like Zhuangzi.

WIP - The world as representation, we interpret and create an image with our senses but that isn't necessarily the true state of things. Using lies to realize the truth, knowing what's not real narrows what can be real. Apophatic Theology

WIP - Animals play fight. actors and writers pov It is impossible to make art entirely separate from reality - entirely fake. It is also impossible to make something entirely true, completly accurate to reality. Not even a picture can truly capture, not even your personal written account can accurately portray the truth