The experimental artist and director talks approximately her new film,The Heart of a Dog, the trouble with social media and coming to terms with death
Hello Laurie! Your movie approximately your terrier, and Lolabelle – her piano-playing and portray,her blindness and her death (1) – is moving audiences to tears at Telluride (2). Is it tough showing it?
Yes. It’s really personal and I don’t bear the defences. These are stories I would do in a live display. But then I wouldn’t bear to sit in the audience. I went on a long tour a few years ago and the repeated use of the word I” made me almost lose my intellect. I ended up truly hating myself. You’re asking people to advance up and tell you what they consider of it.
Comments after, I really do devour. It’s not approximately the film. It’s someone saying something approximately themselves to me. This is great! I’m an anthropologist. We bear our own lives to live and we gather information from other sources approximately how to do it. Everybody wants to find a tiny savor, or you know? And a tiny bit of power and knowledge. It’s really tough to learn that stuff. In the US,parenting doesn’t practically exist. (3) The guidance is just: “Well, things are a lot more difficult for you than for me. So good luck and see ya!”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com