The Birth of Venus

The basic material consisted of about 30 photos showing some close friends and a dead pig we had found on a road The pictures of the pig are used as a symmetric motionmontage I took proper and leftrightinverted photos which are moved back and forth symmetrically over the central axis The introductionscene shows Botticellis Birth of Venus crossfading the figures at both sides and following the title also Venus with a symmetrical pigmontage A detail of Bs picture appears at the end of the film on a wrapper of a lavoratorydeodorant snif Three Beatles songs emphazise the performance with their text The pig is used as a symbol for the woman as a victim It also stands for any associations to pig as proverbial poor swine filthy pig greedy pig or it may allude to a pigsty or a pig in a poke etc The friends appear as two dancing women two lovers a cock a sexchanging head etc Part of the photos were shot by Marc Adrian MB