(4:20 / Fiction)

Cast: Tim Cunningham, Sarah Tutt, Juliet Jones, Shaun Mechen, Penny Linfield

The morning after the night before, a rapid spiral of disastrous telephone calls chart the certain ruin of young Phil's day as he attempts to fib his way out of one scrape after another. Told entirely in animated captions. 

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Such a simple idea.  Such a tremendous hoot, executed to perfection. Whether it's something as simple as changing a single word, or as involved as adding an unspoken thought, the dialogue and its accompanying text complement each other with hilarious effect.  If this playful text-fest pops up at a film festival near you, I highly suggest checking it out.
Film Threat

Nicely illustrated... a humorous and syntactically"inventive animation.
Resfest

The outstanding 'Telling Lies' hits on the simple but blindingly"effective idea of contrasting the words that people say with what they are actually thinking.  Witty, insightful and very close to the bone.  We never get to see the characters but after four minutes you know an awful lot about them.  A short film that won't leave you feeling short changed.
Bermuda International Film Festival

SCREENINGS/
Brief Encounters / Bristol UK (2000) Special Mention
Stuttgart Filmwinter / Germany (2001)
Slamdance Film Festival / Utah, USA (2001)
Transmediale Int'l Media Art Festival / Berlin, Germany (2001) Special Mention
Bradford Film Festival / UK (2001)
Bermuda International Film Festival (2001)
Worldfest / Houston, USA (2001) Bronze Award
Britspotting (British Independent Film Festival Tour) / Berlin, Germany (2001)
Sci Fi Channel (TELEVISION) (2001)
Cinephil / Israel (TELEVISION) (2001)
Tough Eye Animation Festival / Turku, Finland (2001)
Krakow Film Festival / Poland (2001)
Konstrukt Kino (Transmediale Tour) / Bonn, Germany (2001)
Hamburg Int'l Short Film Festival / Germany (2001) Audience Award
Bitfilm Festival / Hamburg, Germany (2001) Audience Award
Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival / Canada (2001)
Waterfront Film festival / Michigan, USA (2001)
Melbourne international Film Festival / Australia (2001)
Kilkenny Cat Laughs Festival / Ireland (2001)
Unabhangiges Filmfest Osnabruck / Germany (2001)
Portobello Film Festival / London UK (2001)
Atlantic Film Festival / Canada (2001)
Splitski Film Festival / Croatia (2001)
Resfest Tour: San Francisco / Chicago / London / New York City / Los Angeles Seoul / Jeonju / Cape Town / Tokyo / Osaka / Sao Paulo / Rio de Janeiro (2001)
Short Cuts Cologne / Germany (2001)
Exground Filmfest / Germany (2001)
Viper / Switzerland (2001)
Montreal International Festival of New Cinema and New Media / Canada (2001) Augsburg Kurzfilm Wochenende / Germany (2001)
Cork Film Festival / Ireland (2001)
Kino / Manchester UK (2001)
Catacomb Microcinema / Canada (2001)
International Kurzfilmfest Munchen / Germany (2001)
Vídeo a mi gusto / Madrid, Spain (2001)
L'Alternativa Independent Film Festival / Barcelona, Spain (2001)
Kurzfilmtage Winterhur / Switzerland (2001)
Kassel Documentary & Video Festival / Germany (2001)
Hannover ‘Up & Coming' Film Festival / Germany (2001)
Interfilm / Berlin, Germany (2001)
Regensburg Kurzfilmwoche / Germany (2001)
Bang / London UK (2001)
Raindance Film Festival / London UK (2001)
Shorts! International Film Festival / Amsterdam (2001)
Take It Short / Montreal, Canada (2001)
Electric Stew / London UK (2001)
Watershed Media Centre (Before Storytelling) / Bristol UK (2001)
Transmediale Tour: Goethe Institute Inter Nationes Porto, Portugal / Chroma Audiovisual Art Festival, Guadalajara , Mexico / Festival Transit, Minsk, Belarussia / Kunstverein Hannover, Germany / Goethe Center Windhoek , Namibia / Media Art Weeks Kyoto 2001, Japan / Rex Cultural Center, Belgrade, Yugoslavia / Communication Front, Plovdiv, Bulgaria / Centrum Szuki Wspoczesnej, Warsaw, Poland / Medienhaus Hannover, Germany / Media Forum Moscow, Russia / Crossing Over 6, Liverpool, UK
Desktop Icons (International Tour) (2001/2)
KQED / USA (TELEVISION) (2002)
Cinefeel / Paris, France (2002)
Festival de Caracas / Venezuela (2002)
Oldenburger Filmtage / Germany (2002)
Halloween (Love & Happiness) / London UK (2002)
Kortfilmsnatt / Stockholm (2002)
Zagreb Animafest / Croatia (2002)
Festival of Visual Art / Barcelona (2002)
Media Art Festival Friesland / Holland (2002)
The Music In My Head (Insane In My Brain) / Amsterdam (2002)
The Parson's Nose, Yale Centre for British Art / New York City, USA (2002)
Rouyn-Noranda International Film Festival / Quebec (2002)
Regensburg Kurzfilmwoche / Germany (2002)
Mini Fest 2, Limerick / Ireland (2002)
BBC 4 / The Shortest Night (TELEVISION) (2003)
Cinequest / San Jose, USA (2003)
Videomundi / Chicago, USA (2003)
Young European Cinema / Poland (2003)
Tampere Film Festival / Finland (2003)
Whatever Works / Edinburgh UK (2003)
Cork Film Festival / Ireland (2003)
TVE Spain (TELEVISION) (2003)
ShortSeasons / London UK (2004)
E.magiciens / Valenciennes, France (2004)
Zwergwerk Oldenburger Filmtage / Germany (2004)
Cherbourg Octeville Festival of British and Irish Film / France (2005)
Soester Kurzfilmtage / Germany (2005)
Tampere International Short Film Festival / Finland (2005)
Future Shorts / London UK (2005)
TV3 / Ireland (TELEVISION) (2005)
International Short Film Festival / Balchik, Bulgaria (2005)
Regensburger Kurzfilmwoche / Germany (2005)
London Film Festival / UK (2005)
BBC Film Network (2005)
Zed CBC, Canada (TELEVISION) (2005)
Halloween Short Film Festival / London UK (2006)
The Projector Tank (Tour) / UK (2006)
Blur & Sharpen / Los Angeles, USA (2006)
Northern Film Network / Barrow-in-Furness, UK (2006)
Sapporo International Short Film Festival / Japan (2007)
Hull International Short Film Festival / UK (2007)
Tinklai International Short Film Festival / Lithuania (2007)
A Wall is a Screen / Manchester, UK (2007)
Interfilm International Short Film Festival / Berlin, Germany (2007)
The Shoestring Collective / Dublin, Ireland (2007)
Film:On (REAL FICTION) / Münster, Germany (2008)
Shorts Attack! / Berlin, Germany (2008)
Festival Paris Tout Court / France (2008)
Zwergwerk 'Animation Films' / Oldenburg, Germany (2008)
Short Escape / Brussels, Belgium (2008)
Short Escape / Barcelona, Spain (2008)
Artrmx / Cologne, Germany (2008)
A Wall is a Screen / Brighton, UK (2008)
Short Escape / Brussels, Belgium (2008)
Short Escape / Brussels, Belgium (2009)
Timishort Film Festival / Timisoara, Romania (2009)
A Wall is a Screen / Hamburg, Germany (2009)
Annexinema / Nottingham, UK (2009)
The Big Chill / Eastnor Park, UK (2009)
Co2penhagen / Copenhagen, Denmark (2009)
FilmDayton / Ohio, USA (2010)
GoShort International Short Film Festival / Nijmegen, Netherlands (2010)
Flatscreen Film Festival / Nijmegen, Netherlands (2010)
Cinema Speakeasy / San Francisco, USA (2011)
Filmwinter Festival for Expanded Media / Stuttgart, Germany (2011)
KurzFilmNacht / 8 City Tour, Switzerland (2011)
Short and Sweet / Cape Town, South Africa (2011)
The Night of Short Film / Oss, Netherlands (2012)
The 8th Berlin International Directors Lounge / Germany (2012)
Contemporary Art Ruhr / Seoul, Miami Beach, Los Angeles (2012)
Moving Type - Letters in Motion (Exhibition) / Dortmund-Mainz-Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany (2013)
Erarta Motion Pictures / St. Petersburg, Russia (2014)
London Short Film Festival / UK (2015)
Regensburg Kurzfilmwoche / Germany (2015)
Typemotion / National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan (2015)
GoShort International Short Film Festival / Nijmegen, Netherlands (2015)
Hamburg International Short Film Festival / Germany (2015)
Regensburg Kurzfilmwoche / Germany (2016)
InScience Film Festival / Nijmegen, Netherlands (2016)
Turku Animated Film Festival / Finland (2018)