Chapter Three: Pacifies a Lier is part of an ongoing series of experimental videos conceived of as a guide for learning pottery-making through hypnotism. The paradox of the studio learning environment is the gap between the ‘showing’ of demonstration and the ‘doing’ of hands-on knowledge. Chapter 3 expands on the themes of hypnotism, pedagogy, invisibility, tactility, and knowledge transmission. The film probes through dark psychological vignettes like Russian nesting dolls. A lecturer is interrupted by a commercial for a prosthetic glove. A scientist conjures a carbon snake. An artist directs protégés in syncopated, rhythmic movements. As ideas appear and reappear in temporal spiraling, perceptual experience and the process of learning become indistinguishable. Material and psychical space collapse and fold through a tattoo parlor, a parapsychology laboratory, and a skylight. You can pick up your work next week.