HYPOCRITES (1915) **** Gabriel the Ascetic builds a Statue of Truth in a minister's dream. The religious leaders try to cover it up, and society clothes it in whatever it wants. A surrealistic cinematic poem with elaborate textures and several chambers. Or you could just take it literally as a priest chasing a naked ghost around. Incredibly ambitious, experimental, biting...what is wrong with our culture that all of the indictments are even more applicable today? Lois Weber was an American prophet. That path is narrow. The score should have been enough for them to invent Academy Awards immediately.