Experiencing Interruptions?

The Truth Is A Demand To Lie

Experimental recordings of architecture and people losing themselves within it, accompanied by an essayistic text about the ambivalent relationship between power and trust.

  • Leniko Sennoma
    Director
  • Leniko Sennoma
    Writer
  • Leniko
    Producer
  • Guiselt Thaiz
    Key Cast
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Die Wahrheit ist eine Aufforderung zur Lüge
  • Project Type:
    Experimental
  • Genres:
    experimental, essayist, arthouse
  • Runtime:
    7 minutes 47 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 1, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    300 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Germany
  • Country of Filming:
    Germany
  • Language:
    German
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Universität der Künste
  • Reinraum e.V.
    Düsseldorf
    Germany
    May 1, 2020
    Sateliteprojekt 01 beginning
    Exhibition
  • Weltkunstzimmer
    Düsseldorf
    Germany
    September 22, 2023
    7. Urban Walk
    Exhibition
Director Biography - Leniko Sennoma

Leniko Sennoma’s main artistic mediums are film and installation. They completed their studies in fine arts, philosophy, and pedagogy at UdK/FU Berlin in 2020, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree and finished their Master (Meisterschüler:in) in Fine Arts at UdK Berlin in 2024. Sennoma's work explores the boundaries between reality and dream, with a focus on social justice and intersectional feminism. They combine techniques of lucid dreaming and archetypical symbolism to question the status quo of information society. Their art is an ongoing search for possibilities of collective liberation, the dismantling of systemic oppression, and the creation of political collaboration. By developing an audio-visual-metaphorical language that works with the synchresis of image, sound, and material aesthetics, they create hypnotic environments that appear simultaneously gentle and eerie. Influenced by their studies in epistemology, theoretical, feministic, analytical philosophy and film theory, their works play with the consciousness of the viewer, generating a broad spectrum of associations, emotions and contrasts. Sennoma's video/installations and short films have been shown in numerous galleries, museums and festivals in and outside Europe, including Galerie Nord | Kunstverein Tiergarten, Gallery 062 Chicaga USA, Gallery SA-KURA Nagoya Japan and Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, ONÍRICO, 2020.

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Director Statement

Similar to the multitude of sounds that make up the urban background noise, words and information are also constantly in flux and exchange. The essayistic short film "The Truth Is A Demand To Lie" examines the connection between language and architecture as an expression of political (dis)empowerment in a bustling metropolis. The film uses architecture as a visual metaphor for society and demonstrates how political language doesn't only reflect reality but actively shapes and influences it by representing illocutionary "acts" that hold power and influence over society. In doing so, it illustrates how phrases from the former German Chancellor Merkel, in the context of the Germany-Turkey agreement, serve as a pretext for human rights violations and illegal actions. The short film highlights the diversity and cacophony of the big city and invites viewers to question the meaning behind words and architecture as sources of power and their implied discriminations, in order to sharpen awareness of cultural, social, and power-related aspects.