Born Villain (film) in West Hollywood, California, which LaBeouf described as a large movie theater where Manson spends much of his time viewing films. LaBeouf said that he and Manson watched several films together there, and discussed the "really eccentric ideas" they had for their video collaboration. LaBeouf financed the film himself. It was inspired by William Shakespeare's "Macbeth", Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel's surrealist short film "Un Chien Andalou" (1929), Alejandro Jodorowsky's "The Holy Mountain" (1973), and what LaBeouf described as "heavy theology." Laney Chantal, the wife of Marilyn Manson member Twiggy Ramirez, served as the makeup artist for the short. Manson
Ida Kar to Iran when Kar was eight, and to Alexandria in Egypt when she was thirteen. She studied at the Lycée Français there. When she was twenty she went to Paris to study chemistry and medicine, but soon began to study singing instead. She frequented the "avant-garde" artists and writers of the Parisian Rive Gauche, among them Piet Mondrian and Yves Tanguy, and became interested in socialist politics, in photography and in Surrealism. She was at the first showing in 1929 of "Un Chien Andalou" by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. Her first work as a photographer was in the studio