Madama Butterfly

 Pjotr Sapegin's Madama Butterfly is an animated short film about a woman and a sailor. At first I thought the film was very bizarre but as it progressed the story line drew me and I really began to enjoy the video. In the video the woman and the sailor copulate and while the sailor is away the woman gives birth to a baby girl. It struck me as odd that she did not disconnect the umbilical cord right away, but she later uses at as a way to turn herself into kite. She does this so she can see her lovers ship come to port. When the ship finally does come to port she stands on top of hill and waits for him to come off. He does not come off the first night and instead stays on the ship were it the viewer can hear a party of sorts and women laughing. The next the sailor comes off the boat in fancy white car with another woman and several children. He walks over to first woman and leans in to kiss her but instead takes the child from her and walks away; As they are about to leave he "cuts the cord" places the child in the car and drives off. This sends the first woman into a deep depression were she runs off the set or away from the world. It is in this time that she re awakens or re invents her self and comes back again as the same beautiful woman that she was before. 
This all very similar to what happens with a butterfly in its life cycle, at first it is an ugly caterpillar. It then enters its cocoon and isolates itself from the world and emerges as a beautiful butterfly. It is my opinion that the artist wanted to convey the emotion of hope with this video. This is done by eluding to the butterfly's life cycle where the caterpillar goes from ugly to pretty and is "re born anew." I think that the artist wanted to tell women that they are all beautiful and that no matter what happens they can always pick themselves up and start over.