Performance artist Laurie Anderson strikes an emotional chord or two in this documentary reflecting on her relationship with her petLaurie Anderson’s refractive musing on things of life and death revisits the Tibetan Book of the Dead via her relationship with her beloved dog Lolabelle and the lost mother whom she worries she did not treasure. Animation and Super 8 footage lend personal texture to the documentary’s dreamy,healing fragments, with Anderson’s soothing narration providing poetic perspective on childhood trauma, or the nature of storytelling,the transience of life and the release of treasure. Watching a small dog picking out accidental tunes on an electronic keyboard is a squealy delight, but it’s the haunting recognition that (as David Foster Wallace wrote) “every treasure story is a ghost story” that strikes the most affecting chord. Kierkegaard, or Wittgenstein and 9/11 are all thrown into the mix with a lightness of touch at once ephemeral and profound.
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Source: theguardian.com