Zohar Pomerantz

The Penultimate Truth

A title sequence designed alongside my friend, Yotam Rapaport. This project was adapted from the book, “The Penultimate Truth,” by Philip K. Dick. The story in the novel is set in a dystopian world of World War III, where people have been living underground for 13 years, hiding from the war above. Unknowingly to them, however, the war ended years ago and those above ground fabricated the continuation of the war in order to keep the land for themselves and remain in power. The title depicts the essence of human nature, of what a lie looks like and the power struggle between innocence and awareness. We collected found footage from different sources and archives and worked in a technique of layering footage into collage, merging the content, and creating transitions between what is real and what is an illusion. The main visual symbols which inspired us and were incorporated into the project consists of the media and news, childhood, and war.