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Heart of a Dog

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Original title: Heart of a Dog
Year: 2015
Running time: 75 min.
Country: United States
Director: Laurie Anderson
Screenwriter: Laurie Anderson
Cast: Documentary
Music: Laurie Anderson
Cinematography: Toshiaki Ozawa, Laurie Anderson, Joshua Zucker Pluda
Producer: Canal Street Communications
Genre: Documentary. Drama | Dogs/Wolves. Experimental Cinema. Independent Film (US)
Synopsis: Heart of a Dog is a personal essay film that explores themes of love, death and language. The director’s voice is a constant presence as stories of her dog Lolabelle, her mother, childhood fantasies, political and philosophical theories unfurl in a seamless song like stream. The visual language spans animation, eight millimeter films from the artist’s childhood, layered imagery and high speed text animation. The director’s signature music runs throughout the film in works for solo violin, quartets, songs, and ambient electronics. The center of Heart of a Dog is a visual and poetic meditation on the bardo, the forty nine day period after death in which identity is shredded and the consciousness prepares to enter another life form. A Story About A Story envisions her ordeal in the hospital when she broke her back as a child and how the story became her way to understand the relationship of real events, authority, and faulty memory on the creation of stories. Theories on sleep, imagination and disorientation are framed as questions about time and identity. Is it a pilgrimage? Which way do we go?

Awards: 2015: Venice Film Festival: Official Selection

2015: Independent Spirit Awards: Nominated for Best Documentary

2015: Gotham Awards: Nominated for Best Documentary

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