What do animals dream when the vet puts them under? This short will haunt you.
Part lyrical document, part farce, Animals Under Anaesthesia: Speculations On the Dreamlife of Beasts explores the imaginary unconscious minds of animals. Images of sex, death and the natural world are made manifest in the murky and disquieting dreams of a dog, a cat, a pig and a rabbit.
Direction
Cassidy and Shatzky blur documentary with fever-dream logic.
Cinematography
Murky, intimate close-ups that feel like trespassing.
Director
Brian M. Cassidy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Cassidy and Shatzky previously made 'The Patron Saints,' another documentary about institutionalized life, suggesting an ongoing fixation on bodies under control.
The film premiered at True/False, a festival devoted to 'non-fiction' that celebrates the blurry line between document and artifice.
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