Sara is led by her grandfather through the mise-en-scene of a film being shot in ltaly. The landscape in which they walk is the film's plot, masquerading as a state of mind, Its sub-plot woven in with a selection of Bach's Goldberg Variations. The young girl sights Venus strolling through these landscapes, an ‘agent provocateur’ from the country of myth. A filmmaker, In whose imagination this plot is unraveling, approaches a group of producers to fund his film "Aphrodite". The film begins to shift back and forth between archaic and modern notions of myth, highlighting the distinctions between myth and story and the relationships between history and biography.
as The Sane Man
as Antonin Artaud
as grandchild
as grandfather
as film-maker
as poet
as Venus/Aphrodite
as Adonis
as Fortune Teller
as farmer's voice
as studio chef
as fat producer
as thin producer
as producer with hat
as second fat producer
as motionless women
as motionless women
as motionless women
as moving children
as 1st. tractor driver
as 2nd. tractor driver
as bike rider
as (god)
as dog
as home-movie stars
as home-movie stars
as home-movie stars
as home-movie stars
