
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