The video's plot largely follows Orwell's original story, but with significant deviations and additions. The farm animals, played by humans, rebel against their owner, but the narrative quickly descends into chaos, exploring themes of power struggles, exploitation, and the blurring of lines between human and animal.

The content of the "Animal Farm" tape was described by various sources as a "plotless series of extremely graphic scenes of zoophilia". According to an IMDb summary, the video contains "several rather graphic scenes of bestiality including sexual acts performed with pigs, horses and even chickens, as well as a scene in which a woman inserts live eels into her vagina". The eel scene in particular predated similar shock content found in later Japanese extreme cinema.

Directed by Molly Mathieson, the documentary systematically dismantled the myths surrounding the tape. Rather than showcasing the explicit footage, the film functioned as a sobering critique of the pornography industry, the mechanics of underground bootleg smuggling, and the profound human tragedy of Joensen's life. Culturists and historians interviewed in the documentary noted that Animal Farm served as a bleak precursor to the normalization of increasingly extreme, algorithmic content on the modern internet. Share public link