Pigs
2010 | 00:07:48 | United States | Color | Mono | 4:3 | DV video
Collection: Single Titles
Tags: Animals, Consumer culture


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, Time Out 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
Athens International Film/Video Festival, Athens, OH, 2012
Berlin International Film Festival, Forum Expanded, 2011
International House, Philadelphia, PA, 2011
Dallas Video Festival, 2012
58th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, 2012
Antimatter Underground Film Festival, 2012
Roots & Culture Community Art Center, March 11, 2012
Stuttgarter Filmwinter Wand (Germany), 2012