You could say it's aimed, not at a cinema audience, but to those who
prefer watching video installations though it might also sit well on a
double bill with Wes Anderson's "Isle of Dogs" while the Russian
connection should remind you of Tarkovsky. It's also more approachable
than it sounds thanks in large part to the casting of Xavier Tchili as
Lek who seems to live and breathe the role until it ceases to be a
performance. Top marks, too, to the remarkable sound design and to Nick
Gordon Smith's extraordinary cinematography. Definitely a key work in
experimental cinema.
The films reviewed here represent those I have liked or loved over the years. It is not a list of my favourite films but all the films reviewed here are worth seeing and worth seeking out. I know many of you won't agree with me on a lot of these but hopefully you will grant me, and the films that appear here, our place in the sun. Thanks for reading.
Wednesday, 4 July 2018
LEK AND THE DOGS
"Lek and the Dogs" is the most overtly experimental of Andrew
Kotting's films, the one closest to the art-gallery rather than the
art-house. It is based loosely on the play "Ivan and the Dogs" about a
boy who leaves his home in Russia and goes to live with a pack of wild
dogs though there is nothing theatrical or even concrete about Kotting's
handling of the material which is composed of a series of images linked
to some degree by a series of chapter headings and Lek's narration, each complimenting the other.
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