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Sunday, June 19, 2016

SFF NOTES: Heart of a Dog (2015, Dir. Laurie Anderson)

Heart of a Dog is barely a film.

It is a day spent inside someone's head.

A stream of consciousness flooding, free-flowing, scattershot thoughts over synapse-fired imagery.

A churning mediation on death.

A link between life and memory and dogs in clogs.

It is insight animated.

It is a celebration of loss.

    Of Lolabelle the dog.

        Of childhood fears.

            Of a mother.

      Of Lou Reed.

It is religion filtered through art and image and remembrance and ritual and ridicule.

It is lamas shouting mantras in stereo.

It is houses split in half.

It is 911.

It is redefinition of life after we've see the hawks in the sky.

It is a redefinition of love when we dive under the ice.

It is a redefinition of memory when we enter the bardo.

It is the beauty of a piano-playing companion.

Of canine finger painting.

It is a work of art.

It is a wonder.

★★★★

Trailer:

Heart of a Dog screened as part of the Sydney Film Festival 2016.

You can check out other films from the festival here.

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