![]() Actually, it’s a cartoon image of Laurie Anderson that says the line above she’s already dreaming, dreamed. ![]() It’s a sonic and visual collage concerning the deaths of her beloved rat terrier Lolabelle, her mother, and her husband, Lou Reed. With the same matter of factness, Laurie Anderson says, “This is my dream body,” in her film Heart of a Dog, which is a documentary only in the sense that a dream body might make a documentary. “Why should I be my aunt / or me, or anyone?” Why, indeed? Why not be something else, say, a dog? The other morning at the gym, I heard a woman say, “So I got the tickets and I was just so proud of myself, my tail went up.” She said it so matter-of-factly I looked to see if she actually had a tail. “But I felt: you are an I / you are an Elizabeth ,” writes Elizabeth Bishop in her poem “In the Waiting Room. You are the one who makes me feel so real. (Is that clanging sound a cowbell? electrified sleigh bells?) Ditto Jocelyn Brown’s “Somebody Else’s Guy,” with its classic line-“You are the one who makes me feel so real”-that slides up just before the beat kicks in and kicks your ass onto the dance floor. There are those of us who can’t, actually, hear “Let the Music Play” too many times. ![]() How one might feel about this very rough and tender footage may depend on one’s feelings about early eighties disco. No one in the film is a particularly good dancer, but they’re all great dancers. They look straight at the VHS camcorder, and presumably Jarman, quite a lot: the young, handsome guys standing at the bar the two tall queens in pearls and Lady Di-blonde, Flock of Seagulls hair-stylings the older gent in white shoes, white pants, and a white muscle tee who never stops dancing or smiling a young man with a spectacular swoop of blond hair who bears an uncanny resemblance to a young Donald Trump, but almost certainly isn’t, and writes fiercely in a notebook the one, then two, then three men doing chained pop and lock, like a collective Shiva with undulating arms and backwards baseball caps. But they aren’t acting, either, except insofar as they are acting like themselves. Magpie, definition, Cambridge Dictionary: 1) a bird with black and white feathers and a long tail, 2) someone who likes to collect many different objects, or use many different stylesĭerek Jarman shot footage of patrons in an East London disco in 1984 that was recently edited into Will You Dance With Me?, an hour and eighteen minutes that can’t exactly be called a documentary, because the patrons were invited specifically to be filmed.
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