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Happy 2025.

We’re officially in peak Illusionism.

Who and what is real?

“Those human masks were the beginning of a whole new generation of work that we did at the CIA. We discovered we could make a twin. We could make another you. We could take your face and put it on someone else. There could be two of you. We could actually make five or six of you.”

-Jonna Mendez, Former Chief (“Master”) of Disguise for the CIA, and founding board member of the International Spy Museum, on her work at the CIA during the Cold War era. She described the mask technology they invented with the help of Hollywood special effects artists, as a “cloning mission.”

Free Guy, 2021. Free Guy is Groundhog Day meets They Live Meets The Truman Show meets Pinocchio.