An Animated Dog Reads John Berger

Matthew Lax

2024 | 00:05:41 | United States | English | Color | Stereo | 16:9 | Video

Collection: New Releases, Single Titles

Tags: Animals, Animation, Literature

A 3D animated dog based on a motion capture of the filmmaker, demonstrates various actions while reciting a monologue composed from John Berger’s Why Look at Animals?, Donna Haraway’s Companion Species Manifesto, and Franz Kafka’s Investigations of a Dog

Image of art work installed in gallery space. A flat screen monitor is placed flat on the floor with a video of an animated collie dog on it.  A dog cage is placed over the monitor.

This piece is originally and properly exhibited as a video installed on a 43” flatscreen lying face-up inside a 42 x 28 x 28” black wire dog crate.

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Exhibitions + Festivals

Human Resources LA, 2024

Der Dolen (installation version), Artist in Focus Survey, International Film Festival Rotterdam 2025 ()