Pigs

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