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DVD: Heart of a DogFriday, 10 June 2016
The language of documentary is shot through with conventions. Rare is the occasion when a film-maker breaks the rules and throws the genre wide open. It takes a versatile artist like Laurie Anderson to free the medium from genre and invent a whole... Read more... |
Brighton Festival: Laurie Anderson's Concert for Dogs, Open Air TheatreWednesday, 11 May 2016
"Wouldn't it be great if you were playing a concert and you looked out and everyone is a dog?" Laurie Anderson mused, almost a decade ago, waiting backstage with cellist Yo-Yo Ma. Anderson has realised her outlandish dream, creating a most unusual... Read more... |
Going to the Dogs, Channel 4Thursday, 12 June 2014
Two years ago Penny Woolcock was at the heart of Birmingham street gangs in her documentary One Mile Way; that one was titled after the fact that two of the city’s competing outfits were separated only by the distance of the film’s title. In Going... Read more... |
Dogs: Their Secret Lives, Channel 4Tuesday, 15 October 2013
What the Dickens is happening to wildlife television? At the back end of all those Atttenborough films they have a segment in which they explain how they got the miracle money shot of the chorus line of orcas, the war ballet of the giraffes, the... Read more... |
Simon McBurney On Creating A Dog's HeartMonday, 22 November 2010
For anyone who grew up in the former Soviet Union, Heart of a Dog is a seminal text. But it’s also in the great tradition of Gogol and all the Russian satirists. It springs out into absolutely delicious flights of fantasy, but really sharp-edged.... Read more... |
A Dog's Heart, English National OperaSunday, 21 November 2010
From discreetly poisoned violets at Covent Garden to buckets of man-dog blood in St Martin’s Lane has been quite a leap this week. True, the bourgeois plastic surgeon of Mikhail Bulgakov’s scabrous, long-suppressed 1925 novella goes about singing... Read more... |
Horizon - The Secret Life of the Dog, BBC TwoThursday, 07 January 2010
For Horizon's fascinating investigation into the ancestral relationship between man and dog, a record-breaking number of illustrious boffins had been compressed into 60 minutes of television. We met Dr Anna Kukekova from Cornell University, who has... Read more... |
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