False Aging expresses a sense of lost time of not moving in step with the rest of the world In one sequence Jefferson Airplanes Lather asks the question Is it true Im no longer young Time makes us prisoners locked in ourselves like the a small yellow bird who slips behind the back of a playing card then comes back out in front of it In rapid alternation they make a kind of thaumatrope that spinning parlor trick that suggests a sense of movement in the flapping wings of a caged bird Here the birdcage has been replaced by chance underscoring the momentary illusion that the bird is free Genevieve Yue