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[caption id="attachment_46933" align="alignleft" width="300"] A film still from Laurie Anderson's "Heart of a Dog."[/caption]
The Parrish Art Museum will screen the lyrical and powerful personal essay film, “Heart of a Dog,” focused on death, family memories, and Buddhist teachings by renowned multidisciplinary artist Laurie Anderson, on Friday, January 8 at 6 p.m. with the artist in house.
"Hello, little bonehead. I'll love you forever." So begins “Heart of a Dog,” Ms. Anderson's film, centered on her dog, Lolabelle, a piano playing, finger painting rat terrier who died in 2011. The film is a personal essay by Ms. Anderson, weaving together childhood memories, video diaries, philosophical musings on data collection, surveillance culture, the Buddhist conception of the afterlife, and heartfelt tributes to the artists, writers, musicians and thinkers who inspire her. It touches on the artist’s own experience after the September 11 attacks in New York City, and the loss of her husband, Lou Reed, who died in East Hampton with Ms. Anderson by his side in 2013.
The film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival in September and in early December was shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Tickets are $10; free for members. For more information, visit parrishart.org.
on Jan 4, 2016