Lyrical and powerfully personal essay film that reflects on the deaths of her husband Lou Reed, her mother, her beloved dog, and such diverse subjects as family memories, surveillance, and Buddhist teachings.
Direction
Anderson's voice is the whole architecture.
Score
Lou Reed's ghost lingers in every note.
Editing
Dream logic that shouldn't work but absolutely does.
Director
Laurie Anderson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Anderson performed this first as a live multimedia show at the Park Avenue Armory before filming it, making the movie a document of a document.
The title references Mikhail Bulgakov's Soviet satire, but Anderson subverts it — instead of a man becoming a dog, she asks what a dog might teach us about becoming human.
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