ANIMALS UNDER ANAESTHESIA: SPECULATIONS ON THE DREAMLIFE OF BEASTS

Part lyrical document, part farce, Animals Under Anaesthesia: Speculations on the Dreamlife of Beasts explores the imagined unconscious minds of animals. Images of corporeality, death and the natural world are made manifest in the nightmarish dreams of a dog, cat, pig, and rabbit.

14  min / Experimental / 1.78

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Directed, Produced, Shot & Edited by Brian M. Cassidy & Melanie Shatzky

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"maniacally appetizing exploration of the subconscious" - Labocine

"Buñuelian...visually and sonically audacious" - Museum of the Moving Image

"alluring and disturbing...a strange and disorienting world of terror and fascination" - InFlux