Many people were offended or disturbed by Menq. After that experience, I became disillusioned with humanity and decided to make a film about animals. Animals do not take offence, yet through them I could express the very same ideas I had explored in relation to people. The film was conceived around a deeply human relationship with nature and the animal world: “Stop, Man, and look around you – what have you come to?” It is, of course, about the violence inflicted by humankind upon nature and the threat posed by the destruction of its natural harmony.

Artavazd Pelechian, Mon cinéma, “Traffic”, n. 2, April 1992