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Directed by Laurie Anderson
2015, USA, 75 min
“Hello, little bonehead. I’ll love you forever.” So begins Heart of a Dog, musician and performance artist Laurie Anderson’s wry, wondrous and unforgettable cinematic journey through love, death and language centered on her beloved terrier Lolabelle, who died in 2011. Fusing her own witty, inquisitive narration with original compositions, hand-drawn animation, 8mm home movies and artwork culled from exhibitions past and present, Anderson creates a hypnotic, collage-like visual language out of the raw materials of her life and art, examining how stories are constructed and told — and how we use them to make sense of our lives. An important performance artist from the 80’s New York art scene Anderson relates many stories from her own life from a visit her dying mother to an accident with two of her brothers in the winter. She tells a funny story of how though her dog went blind in later years and began taking piano lessons on a dog friendly keyboard and became so good she gave a concert. She dedicates the film to the magnificent spirit of her partner, the late Lou Reed.
