Die Botschaft - Totentanz 8 (1989)

The elephant made of ivory is a cycle of eight dances of death in which one performance artist is interacting with a skull. A young woman climbs up the stairs, opens a bird cage filled with feathers and lets the feathers fly into the backyard. She starts to dance inside of a vast, empty, silvery shining warehouse. There is a notion of alienation within these images since the film material has been manipulated. The artist takes a rest at the open window, spreads the feathers, while a skull is facing her - she kisses it long and intensely.