2010 | 00:07:48 | United States | Color | Mono | 4:3 | DV video
Collection: New Releases, Single Titles
Tags: Animals, Consumer culture
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A close-range look at pigs living on a farm in Las Vegas, Nevada. The pigs, individually and as a group, become a metaphor for humanity as they go from leisurely wallowing in the mud to the wildness of a feeding frenzy. In a key shot, a pig confronts the viewer with a prolonged, enigmatic stare, as if questioning the very nature of human/animal relationship.
“Marvelously abstract and perfectly concrete.”
-- The Jury of the 2011 Hong Kong International Film Festival
“Even more unnerving (…) is a painterly video by Pawel Wojtasik. With its Anselm Kiefer textures and Orwellian overtones, the film features a surging mass of exuberant pigs, knee-deep in mud and garbage bags (they’re fed rubbish from Las Vegas casinos).”
--Anne Doran, TimeOut New York
Prizes + Awards
Grand Prize, Short Film Category, Hong Kong International Film Festival, 2011
2nd Prize, Onion City Experimental Film & Video Festival, 2011
Premiere
New York Film Festival, Views from the Avant-GardeNew York, NY
Exhibitions + Festivals
58th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, 2012
Antimatter Underground Film Festival, 2012
Roots & Culture Community Art Center, March 11, 2012
Berlin International Film Festival, Forum Expanded, 2011
International House, Philadelphia, PA, 2011