Pjotr Sapegin’s ARIA (Madama Butterfly)

I didn't really know what to think of this when i first watched it in class. It is an interesting way to take a full length opera and condense it down into a short film with no dialogue and still relay the message the story is trying to tell.  You can still watch this 10 minute short film and understand what is happening to the characters without the characters having to say anything at all.  They use puppets/dolls as the characters as well as what looks like clay.  I think they did a good job at showing all of the different emotions of the characters through gestures since there wasn't any real emotion on there faces.  The part at the end where she literally tears off her own skin out of grief definitely shows her overwhelming sadness over her child being torn away from her.  She only sees total destruction of herself as the only option.  Short film is just one way of many you can take another form of art or story and create it in a different way. 

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