Week 2: The Rooster's Laughter

The Rooster's Laughter by Max Ernst

1. Woman poses in dance-like graceful form while rooster balances on a ball, next to basket of eggs.
2. Rooster-man looks over sleeping/dead/unconscious girl, rooster watches.
3. Girl is burried under the floor while 2 rooster people, and naked woman look upon her. Rooster is not shown.
4. Rooster-people look upon statuesque naked woman, she looks sick.
5. Dead looking woman pictured in bedroom on the floor, Rooster-man is shown yelling with arms raised.
6. Woman dances while Rooster-man looks upon her from behind a door.
7. Rooster-man sits with two women at the theatre.
8. 2 women hide from Rooster-monster, goose head sticking out of woman's back.
9. Man pulls at Skeleton, skeleton is holding another skeleton, another figure is pictures looking off panel, seems uninterested. Rooster is pictures on floor looking upon them.
10. Rooster-men are grabbing women, unconsentually.
11. Rooster-men tied up another fellow bird-man.
12. Rooster-men have a woman tied up, looks tortured.
13. Women are shooting at one another, roosters standing around.
14. Rooster-man pointing at body of woman hung.
15. Rooster-man is pictured hung in a bedroom. The bedroom of the woman on the floor? Lovers?
16. Rooster-men raise flag above city.

Perhaps a commentary on animal abuse, the treatment of Chickens and Roosters by humans.