“HEART OF A DOG” 2015 | 1h15’ [US\FR] | LAURIE ANDERSON Cinema Screenings
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## Ciclo LAURIE ANDERSON: VOZ, INTUIÇÃO E PALAVRA
[LAURIE ANDERSON: VOICE, WORD AND INTUITION Cinema Screenings]
Curadoria de Alexandre Braga
“HEART OF A DOG” 2015 | 1h15’ [US\FR] (Coração de Cão - PT)
De Laurie Anderson
Sábado Dia 04/07 às 19h30 [Saturday 07/04 at 7:30pm]
A partir da morte do seu cão, Laurie Anderson constrói um ensaio audiovisual sobre memória, amor, vigilância e impermanência. O filme é uma meditação íntima sobre perda e consciência.
Beginning with the death of her dog, Laurie Anderson creates an audiovisual essay on memory, love, surveillance, and impermanence. The film becomes an intimate meditation on loss and awareness.
Spoken in English | Subtitled in Portuguese
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There are artists who tell stories. Others create images. Laurie Anderson does something different: she creates ways of thinking.
For more than five decades, the American artist has moved effortlessly across music, cinema, literature, performance and contemporary art, developing a singular language in which the spoken word, technology and imagination become instruments of the same artistic inquiry. In her work, thinking is never merely an intellectual exercise; it is a sensory experience where memory, humour, philosophy, politics and emotion continually intersect.
At a time when we are constantly encouraged to react more quickly, Laurie Anderson restores the value of pause. Her stories unfold through unexpected associations, intuitive detours and seemingly disconnected fragments that gradually reveal a deeper coherence. They do not seek to persuade or explain.
They invite each spectator to discover their own inner path.
In Home of the Brave (1986), we encounter Anderson at the height of her groundbreaking multimedia period. Electronic music, modified violins, projected imagery, absurd humour, fragmented narratives and improbable characters transform the stage into a laboratory where language no longer describes the world but begins to invent it.
Nearly thirty years later, Heart of a Dog (2015) turns that same artistic inquiry towards an intensely intimate territory. Beginning with the death of her beloved dog, Lolabelle, Anderson creates a cinematic essay on memory, grief, love, technological surveillance, Buddhism, childhood and the fragility of existence. What could have become a personal memoir instead evolves into a universal meditation on what remains when everything else seems to disappear.
Together, these two films trace an extraordinary journey. If Home of the Brave celebrates the exuberance of performance and the creative possibilities of language, Heart of a Dog reveals the moment when that same language gives way to silence, contemplation and acceptance. Yet both works remain driven by the same fundamental question: how can art help us inhabit the mystery of being alive?
More than a composer, filmmaker or performance artist, Laurie Anderson has become one of the most distinctive philosophical voices in contemporary art. Her work reminds us that technology need not distance us from our humanity, that language can still be a place of discovery, and that imagination may be one of our deepest forms of knowledge.
By bringing these two films together, PROSA invites audiences on a journey between voice and silence, invention and memory, spectacle and meditation. It is an invitation to rediscover cinema not simply as storytelling, but as a space where thought, music and image converge—and where, sometimes, a quietly spoken story can reveal more about who we are than our greatest certainties.
(Curatorship by Alexandre Braga)
All Cinema PROSA films will be shown on an illuminated pixel (65’’ QLED screen) in a room with a maximum capacity of 24 spectators.
Come and have a glass of wine or a non-alcoholic drink in the cinema room with us!