Siren was created in Cytter's typical way of narrating insane stories, usually centered on the conflict between the genders and based on disorienting flashbacks, together with tools that formulate a new visual language and change our approach to images. In Siren, Cytter engages with “poor images” and their mass processing and circulation via mobile and smart-phone cameras. Reiterations of images and scenes of different qualities unravel the wide range of ambiguous possibilities of interpretation, holding and insisting on issues such as love and revenge. The female narrator convinces her male friend to murder another man in the name of all women, in revenge for the unequal treatment in the battle of the sexes. Delicate decorative imagery, as well as images from magazines and advertisements, blend with acts of violence and dialogues on loneliness. The banal accentuates the drama. In the background, Tim Buckley sings Song to the Siren, performed in the folk version on the TV show The Monkees. This song was featured in the soundtrack of the horror films The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Lost Highway. Buckley, who died at the age of 28 from an overdose, serves as another motif in the plot, just like the song's lyrics.
