American Bottom is a short film which features monologues of how the average American feels about bodily self image, their diet, and their backsides. There are no faces or sit down interviews. American Bottom is just people’s voices put to the images of their bare bottoms. Using the derriere as the focal point, the film aims to explore the relationship between food, exercise and self-image. American Bottom is specifically tailored for the mobile device market and will be available on the iPod, cell-phone and PS2 platforms.

American Bottom Participants
American Bottom participants will be interviewed and asked to answer a number of questions about their bottom. They will be asked to model their bare bottom for the camera. Only their bottom will be filmed and their privates will remain un-filmed at all times. During the filming only women will be present when filming women. Likewise, only men will be present when filming men. The utmost care will be taken to respect the personal privacy of the individual.

Questions for American Bottom.
(1) Describe your bottom?
(2) What do you like about your bottom?
(3) What do you hate about your bottom?
(4) What would you change about your bottom?
(5) If your bottom could talk what would it say?
(6) Name all the words for bottom that you can think of?
(7) if you could have someone else’s bottom whose would you have?
(8) What asses do you admire?
Categories
(a) Self image
(b) Food
(c) Sex
(d) Exercise
(e) Popular Culture