There are art films, and then there are true labors of love, and Heart of a Dog falls in to the latter category. Celebrated multimedia artist Laurie Anderson sets her sights on her relationship with Lolabelle, her terrier. Ingeniously mixing animation and live action, Anderson creates a dreamscape that dances between memory, fantasy and surreal present moments, full of empathy, love and pure imagination. Anderson proves to be open to the wondrous nature of connectedness with Lolabelle and the world at large, and she can’t help sharing the experience with us. (Opens Friday at Esquire Theatre) (Not Rated) Not screened in time for review
This article appears in Mar 2-9, 2016.
