Heart of a Dog

I don't like associative films because even though they have an idea within them - or they could have one - the way they are presented bothers me so much that I don't actually have any proper experience from the film itself because I don't enjoy watching it. Moreover, I'm not sure if the associations here are actually a bit self-serving. At least in places they sound strange. (02.04.2017)

The internet is a movie! The castration of Eastern European philosophy into one-sentence lessons, shots of children and nature through all sorts of primitive filters, free association, context-free dictated trivia culled from some kind of "20 Things You Didn't Know About the World Around Us"; there are even mobile phone videos of a dog playing the piano. This is exactly how I imagine the FB wall of a wealthy housewife somewhere in the suburbs after her adult children have left home. Yet the whole monologue is told in a creepily affected Štěpánka Haničincová style. I'm pretty convinced that if someone sat me down in a coffee shop across from Laurie Anderson, I'd slit my wrists from boredom within five minutes. (26.12.2016)

Subjectively: unbearable. Objectively: anachronistic. If you think your dog is an artist, that it talks and you'd have preferred to take him out of your womb as a baby (and are uncomfortable with personal data tracking to boot), I give you permission to hate me. (12.04.2016)