: In a key sequence, Gaga floats toward the sky while dressed in green, which is later understood as a symbolic representation of her life nearly leaving her body. The Shocking Plot Twist
: A man banging his head against a pillow, a woman cradling a mummified body, and a mysterious masked rider on a black horse populate this landscape. Lady Gaga - 911 (Short Film)
For the majority of its runtime, the film presents a vivid, technicolor dreamscape filmed at . Gaga portrays a woman in a desert surrounded by bizarre characters and high-fashion iconography: : In a key sequence, Gaga floats toward
The film culminates in a "Wizard of Oz" style reveal: the entire fantasy is a hallucination occurring in Gaga’s mind after a traumatic car accident outside an . Every abstract element is revealed to have a real-world counterpart: Gaga portrays a woman in a desert surrounded
: The opening shots of halved pomegranates and the central desert mission are direct references to Sergei Parajanov's The Color of Pomegranates .
Lady Gaga’s "911" short film is a deeply personal surrealist exploration of her relationship with mental health, specifically focusing on the antipsychotic medication Olanzapine that she is prescribed. Directed by , the video is an intricate homage to the 1969 Soviet art film The Color of Pomegranates and serves as a visual metaphor for the "poetry of pain" that Gaga experienced during past psychotic breaks. The Surreal Fantasy