A quick sequence of grainy film close-ups show the faces of each of two men, covered with blood that looks like red paint.
We see three dead men lying in a row with their mouths taped with Xs of tape as sparrows fly out of a bloody hole at the heart area of one of the corpses (from "The Holy Mountain").
A hand pulls off a man's goggles, revealing several coiled wires in each eye socket as the man falls off screen.
A drawing of a sci-fi character features a clown face with a skull hat and skeleton bones attached to his hips and pant legs.
Sketches show spaceships breaking up and an astronaut in space whose leg is coming apart at the shin.
A drawing of a head and a hand shows a knife in the hand, cutting a man's throat and red blood seeping out; we hear that the bleeding character cannot die, because he is really a part of every human being.
A sketch of the hold of a spaceship shows two dead men lying side by side and we hear that they are dead.
A sketch shows that a sword cut off the arms of a man at the shoulders, and then the legs at the hips (no blood is drawn).
A skull rests on a pile of papers and manuscripts as a paperweight. In several scenes, sculptures and paintings of the creature from the film "Alien" appear; it is black, with a very long skull, blanked eyes, huge gnashing sharp teeth, claws and an insect-reptile body; it sometimes includes many large black tentacles on the head and we hear that the artist's work was a large influence on the film and its monster.
A movie poster is a painting of a ghoulish face above a nude woman lying prone and a large spot of blood drips down into the mouth of a ghoulish male below (like a vampire but no fangs are shown).
A sketch for a film shows a castle built to look like a man, with a pentagram attached to the groin; we hear that the tongue was to roll out and gather up a landing spaceship and bring it inside; a walkway to the castle included knives all along both sides that we hear were to snap out with the purpose of cutting off the feet of people who were not careful.
A woman rolls a bowling ball at a running man felling him like a bowling pin; another woman runs to the man and whips him with a bullwhip (we hear loud smacking sounds).
We see a martial arts instructor practicing with nunchucks and a sketch of a man in a jumping sidekick.
A filmmaker states that he needs to find spiritual warriors in order to make a film and that making it is a fight.
We hear that officials banned a film from the 1970s in Mexico City because it frightened people and caused them to riot, stampeding out of theaters.
We hear that a man received hard training daily in martial arts and its weapons for many months in order to make a film.
A man's father says that he felt as if he sacrificed his son's life for the film, working him so hard, but good things in life are about sacrifice.
A man writes a note to a famous surrealist artist on a Tarot image of the Hanged Man; the artist agrees to be in a film, but wants a burning giraffe (we do not see one) and we hear that the artist is destructive and will try to destroy a film project.
An artist says that when he heard a certain rock group perform, he felt like Christ on the cross, implying that he felt his life was fulfilled.
A colleague states that a director was humiliated and hurt long-term, because his film failed to be shot, owing to its big budget; the director raises his voice in anger, stating that he made it into an oversize graphic novel and that the huge book of film sketches can be animated now, even if he dies; he says that it will be better than the film done without him.
We hear that a man defecates a "golden turd" and see a large gold nugget in a glass case of water; later, we hear that a long mural over a bar in a restaurant is dedicated to the "fart" with various monks in the depiction making smirking faces.