Kenneth Anger chose a dwarf to play the part of the lady, so the fountains would look bigger than they really were.
The actress in the film is Carmilla Salvatorelli, a circus midget introduced to Kenneth Anger by Federico Fellini.
Shot in black and white and then through a red filter and then printed on color stock with a blue filter.
The title is a pun on "feux d'artifice," the French word for fireworks, the title of Kenneth Anger's first film.