{"id":16056,"date":"2023-11-30T22:00:34","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T03:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16056"},"modified":"2023-11-29T07:51:51","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T12:51:51","slug":"heart-of-a-dog-2015-laurie-anderson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16056","title":{"rendered":"Heart of a Dog (2015, Laurie Anderson)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m figuring out who Laurie Anderson is before the Big Ears fest.  This is a poem-essay film about &#8220;the connection between love and death&#8221;&#8230; still drawings and an animated Laurie give an introductory dream sequence about giving birth to her dog, then straight to the death of her mother over blurry, barely-there archive films and photos.  The dog goes blind, Laurie has her make paintings and sculptures and play paw-piano (they show a long stretch of dog piano music, including live performance footage from a benefit concert), and Laurie speaks of dog perception and post-9\/11 surveillance.  Ends with Lou&#8217;s song &#8220;Turning Time Around&#8221; and in the closing credits you realize her real home movies were mixed with staged(?) archive-looking footage (and Chris Marker is thanked).  I kinda loved this &#8211; all these years I assumed I would find it tedious.  It can go either way with personal docs and poetry.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/heartdog1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/heartdog2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m figuring out who Laurie Anderson is before the Big Ears fest. This is a poem-essay film about &#8220;the connection between love and death&#8221;&#8230; still drawings and an animated Laurie give an introductory dream sequence about giving birth to her dog, then straight to the death of her mother over blurry, barely-there archive films and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,395,13,93,825,3185,268],"class_list":["post-16056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-blindness","tag-criterion","tag-documentary","tag-dog","tag-laurie-anderson","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16083,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16056\/revisions\/16083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}