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Single-channel color video (26:32), corridor, found dog skeleton parts, cement
Variable dimensions
New Haven, CT
2014
Dog Island merges the narratives, myths, embellishments, and rumors about two similar islands in Constantinople and Karachi which were occupied by wild dogs in the early 20th century. Instead of adopting the fixed narrative of the traditional documentary, the work adopts a logic more akin to a fever dream, and seeks to combine two stories about similar islands to reveal a greater truth about uncertainty and violence.
Screenings:
Where You Thought You Were, LA Film Forum, July 2016, Los Angeles, California
Experiments in Cinema, 10th Edition, April 2015, Albuquerque, New Mexico
International Film Festival ZOOM - ZBLIZENIA, February 2015, Jelenia Góra, Poland
FLEXFEST, The Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival, February 2015, Gainesville, FL
Publications:
Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism, Vol. 44, Nude Animal: Vanessa Renwick and the Wild,
Bernard Roddy, November/December 2016