GFF: Heart of a Dog
Fri 26 February 2016

Heart of a Dog
David Foster Wallace wrote that ‘every love story is a ghost story’. Laurie Anderson takes that thought to heart in her beguiling stream of consciousness essay that weaves a tapestry of images, thoughts and musical riffs around the special bond she enjoyed with her beloved rat terrier Lolabelle who died in 2011. Using her own animation and 8mm home movies, Anderson quotes Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein and the Tibetan Book of the Dead as she constructs a warm, playful and emotional reflection on love and death in the shadow of successive family losses including her mother and her husband Lou Reed. A wonderful reflection on puppy love.