First he seduced her. Then he made her a star. He was Johnny Hyde, 52-year-old agent, friend, lover. She was an unemployed starlet — destined to be America's greatest sex goddess. Theirs was a sizzling romance — torrid, touching, tragic.
This film is a scrambled narrative that illustrates, in soap opera fashion, life of artists in Lower Manhattan and at the same time dramatizes questions about the nature of filmic representation. Split decision is a boxing term used when the judges divide their votes in finding a winner. In this case the fight is between the two heroes of the film who are seen intermittently in a bar, negotiating a pick-up, and at home, breaking up in a domestic quarrel. The fight is also in the telling, between modes of conventional representation and modes of radical representation - between conventional continuity editing, and abstraction created through computer generated grids. The film features an appearance by Carolee Schneemann and digital imaging from before the era of personal computers.
David, un estudiante, busca trabajo. Es contratado por el Dr. Stoner como asistente de laboratorio para sus experimentos e investigaciones. David, además, empieza a enamorarse de la hija del doctor. Lo que no sabe el joven es que el científico ha descubierto un brebaje que puede transformar a cualquier hombre en una serpiente y planea usarlo en su ayudante.
