Directed by:
Laurie AndersonScreenplay:
Laurie AndersonComposer:
Laurie AndersonCast:
Bob Currie, Sasha Grossman, Kurt Gutenbrunner, Willy Friedman, Evelyn Fleder, Jenni Muldaur, Julian Schnabel, Dustin Guy Defa, Jason Berg, Heung-Heung Chin (more)VOD (3)
Plots(1)
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? (Venice International Film Festival)
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Heart of a Dog
Label: Nonesuch Records
Year: 2015
Format: CD
Length: 01:14:51
| 1. | The Lake (Instrumental) | Laurie Anderson | 01:32 |
| 2. | Birth Of Lola | Laurie Anderson | 02:19 |
| 3. | Tell All The Animals | Laurie Anderson | 02:11 |
| 4. | From The Air | Laurie Anderson | 07:07 |
| 5. | Phosphenes | Laurie Anderson | 00:48 |
| 6. | Lola Goes Blind | Laurie Anderson | 03:12 |
| 7. | Iron Mountain | Laurie Anderson | 03:03 |
| 8. | How To Feel Sad Without Being Sad | Laurie Anderson | 02:08 |
| 9. | The West Village | Laurie Anderson | 01:42 |
| 10. | Life Lived Backwards | Laurie Anderson | 02:23 |
| 11. | The Cloud | Laurie Anderson | 02:12 |
| 12. | A Different World | Laurie Anderson | 01:53 |
| 13. | What If The Sky Froze? | Laurie Anderson | 01:54 |
| 14. | Piano Lessons | Laurie Anderson | 03:00 |
| 15. | Animals Are Like People | Laurie Anderson | 02:16 |
| 16. | The Release Of Love | Laurie Anderson | 01:42 |
| 17. | Three Ghosts | Laurie Anderson | 02:29 |
| 18. | The Bardo | Laurie Anderson | 08:24 |
| 19. | The Real World | Laurie Anderson | 01:17 |
| 20. | Dreaming Of Life Before Birth | Laurie Anderson | 01:40 |
| 21. | A Story About A Story | Laurie Anderson | 05:56 |
| 22. | Flow | Laurie Anderson | 02:13 |
| 23. | Laurie Anderson | 01:36 | |
| 24. | Bring Her Some Flowers | Laurie Anderson | 02:07 |
| 25. | The Mother Meditation | Laurie Anderson | 01:11 |
| 26. | The Lake (Vocal Version) | Laurie Anderson | 04:14 |
| 27. | "Turning Time Around" - Lou Reed | 04:22 |