The subliminal film still of an erect penis [1, nsfw] in the MTV-style film montage at the beginning of Ingmar Bergman’s Persona (1966) appears to have been imitated [2, nsfw] in the film Fight Club (1999). The difference is that in Bergman’s Persona the film still is several frames long, clearly visible to the naked eye, whereas in Fight Club it is only one frame long, it can only be consciously seen by pausing the video.
The enigmatic clip above is from La morte ha fatto l’uovo (1968) starring Jean-Louis Trintignant and Ewa Aulin. It appears to be a piece of YouTube bricolage. Perhaps the music in the clip is from the film, music by Bruno Maderna?
The soundtrack is indeed composed, arranged and conducted Bruno Maderna and it appears to be the best thing of the film. However, the high modernism of Maderna in combination with this piece of genre cinema makes the film a perfect example of nobrowartsploitation and had I not been three years old when this film came out, I would have surely wanted to see it.
Thematically, the film reminds me of Pasolini’s Pigsty.That’s probably because in both films a victim is fed as animal food, in Pigsty (“eaten by pigs in the sty”) as pig food, in Death Laid an Egg (“the farm chickens feed on Marco’s ground corpse”) as chicken food. Which reminds me of Soylent Green, the film in which, after euthanasia, dead humans are made into crackers and fed to living humans.