: A friend of many years'acquaintance showed me the duplicity of myself. And, midst guilt and anxiety, I came to see that duplicityoften shows itself forth in semblance of sincerity. Then a dream informed me that Sincerity IV, which I hadjust completed, was such a semblance.... I saw that the film in question demonstrated a duplicity ofrelationship between the Brakhages and animals (Totemism) and environs (especially trees),...and people atlarge. I saw that the film shifted its compositions equally along a line of dark shapes as well as light, andthat it did not progress (as did earlier Sincerities) but was rather a correlative of Sincerity 1.Accordingly, I changed the title to Duplicity. Stan Brakhage