Heart of a Dog

"Its roving, free-associative structure brings together all manner of richly eccentric musings on the evasions of memory, the limitations of language and storytelling, the strangeness of life in a post-9/11 surveillance state, and the difficulty and necessity of coming to terms with death."

"In combining video, surveillance footage and her own 8mm family memories, Heart of a Dog quickly accesses a realm of ideas that vault it far higher than mere sentiment would allow."

"Heart of a Dog hints that the very language on which Anderson has built her career as a performance artist is finally inadequate in the face of mortality."

"Heart of a Dog is about telling and remembering and forgetting, and how we put together the fragments that make up our lives..."

"From a sensory point of view, the film is a pleasure, the images having been manipulated in various ways to evocative effect, Anderson’s voiceovers proving more amusing than not, and the music taking mostly lively turns."