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Clothes of Deception

by Odair Faléco

A Zen tale in which two people enter the same water and the world no longer sees them as they were when they come out.

Format
Short film
Genre
Animated fable
Year
2025
Runtime
3 min
Added
2 Nov 2026

Why this film matters

Clothes of Deception adapts a story Odair Faléco says he heard in a lecture years ago: two people enter the same water and are perceived differently when they come out. Faléco deliberately went against the drive toward realistic performance and effects, choosing minimal compositions and meditative pacing modelled on Japanese painting.

It was among the finalists of ITU’s AI for Good Film Festival 2025, whose announcement reads it as a critique of judging people by appearance.

Production evidence

Credits and the stylistic intent come from the release and the director’s own page. The tools are not named. The journal has not watched the complete film.

Production notebook

What the makers have disclosed. Credits may be partial.

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Credits

Directed and written by Odair Faléco, who also did the art direction, scenes and motion; video edit by Rodrigo Ribeiro Vieira; sound design by Faléco and Vieira. Produced by zero1cine.

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Production and submission

Faléco's page describes a co-production between zero1cine and DreamFlare AI and his submission to the Curious Refuge + Promise AI animation competition; the release says it was a finalist there.

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Visual approach

Faléco says he aimed for simplicity, minimal visuals and slow pacing so that each frame would read like a Japanese Zen painting, citing the Nihonga painter Uemura Shōen as an influence. The page gives a 21:9 format.

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Unknown technical details

Specific image, video and sound models are not named.

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