This Action Lies is a movie about the limits of observation about staring very hard at something while listening to something else It is a paranoid polyphonic apology of a simple act offering three perspectives of an object that may not exist in a room that cannot exist while at the mercy of a mistrustful monologue In other words a defense of cinema This project expands ideas introduced in one of Kienitz Wilkins previous films Indefinite Pitch 2016 and is similarly voicedriven using an extended monologue to analyze a common and underappreciated commercial product elevating it to the status of an almost Platonic form