We Are Polychromatic

“Laurie Anderson’s Heart of a Dog is an inquiry into the mind, one that is centered around but also bold enough to wander from the keyboard-playing canine of its title, a pet so beloved that Anderson details a dream of birthing her in the film’s illustrated opening. Anderson is auteur, narrator, and guide, grasping our hands and settling us into her vast and gorgeous mind-scape through seamlessly-mixed media and an astonishingly enveloping sound design that ranks among the very best of 2015’s technical achievements. Her rambling, joyously-delivered monologue is extraordinary in its elasticity, shape-shifting from loopy anecdote to history lesson to wry limerick and back again. Anderson has furnished a bountiful and bittersweet journey of both spiritual calm and cinematic ingenuity while also making a case for herself as a talented and thrillingly exploratory filmmaker worth seeing more from.” — Matthew Eng