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Identity Crisis

Type: TV - Series or strand
Released: 2001
Directed by: Ian MacMillan
Directed by: Chris Rodley
Directed by: Edmund Coulthard

Crew

Producer Ian MacMillan

Production Company Blast! Films

Full credits (Main credits only)

Synopsis:

Identity, once so fixed, is now fluid. This three-part series explores how, as the personal becomes more important, so our ability to manipulate and change our identity deepens in equal measures.
Confessions: Why do people bear their souls in public? Confession was once a private affair, now it's highly public and many people disapprove. Is confession another form of self-delusion - or a valiant way of unfathoming the truths of the human condition?
Lies: What's the difference between playing with new identities and wilfully misleading others, between Walter Mitty and the con man? The film explores these issues by interviewing and telling the story of people whose lives have been lives as a lie, from a US high school teacher who couldn't read nor write, to identical twins who use this fact by pretending to be each other.
Masks: We all like dressing up, playing someone else, acting out roles. Writers assume the identity of their characters when they're writing, actors when they're acting. But when does playing someone else become an art? When is a mask a lie that tells the truth? How is it that in changing your identity, you can become more fully yourself?

Synopsis:
Identity, once so fixed, is now fluid. This three-part series explores how, as the personal becomes more important, so our ability to manipulate and change our identity deepens in equal measures.
Confessions: Why do people bear their souls in public? Confession was once a private affair, now it's highly public and many people disapprove. Is confession another form of self-delusion - or a valiant way of unfathoming the truths of the human condition?
Lies: What's the difference between playing with new identities and wilfully misleading others, between Walter Mitty and the con man? The film explores these issues by interviewing and telling the story of people whose lives have been lives as a lie, from a US high school teacher who couldn't read nor write, to identical twins who use this fact by pretending to be each other.
Masks: We all like dressing up, playing someone else, acting out roles. Writers assume the identity of their characters when they're writing, actors when they're acting. But when does playing someone else become an art? When is a mask a lie that tells the truth? How is it that in changing your identity, you can become more fully yourself?

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