Two Headed Dog
videostills from “Two Headed Dog” (2020)
Video, stop motion animation (3:27 min)
Two Headed Dog departs from a Soviet experiment from the 1950s in which a second head was transplanted onto a living dog using vascular connections to the host’s heart. The film replaces the dog with a human figure and asks: what were the heads thinking?
The work uses the two-headed body as a metaphor for emigration, cutting one’s main connections and reattaching them somewhere else, and for the experience of holding two contradictory thoughts at the same time. One head thinks about the eyes of an animal. The other looks at its feet, trying to remember how it got there.
detail from “Two Headed Dog” (2020)
Video, stop motion animation (3:27 min)