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Shifting Positions is a semi-autobiographical/fictional trilogy exploring becoming queer later in life, my father's dementia, and our mid- and end-of-life crises. The selling of our family home of forty years prompted the making of the first section, entitled 'Last Home', which investigates the ways memories and spirits inhabit a house. In the remaining two sections— 'Napping' and 'Behavior Of Fascination'—the relationship between father and daugther is looked at through 'home movies' and documented intimate moments of private life
ANIMAL ATTRACTION examines the relationship between people and animals, questioning the way we project ourselves onto our pets, imbuing their gestures with human qualities and attributes. Looking at the paranormal phenomenon of telepathic communication, this video investigates the social group of New Agers who are involved in working with animals. Following an interspecies telepathic communicator, Dawn Hayman from Spring Farm CARES, an animal sanctuary in upstate New York, the filmmaker uses herself as a protagonist to look at this complex examination of our relationship to “nature,” and develops a particular empathy for the animals in the end.
How do we think about animals? Or rather – how do our animal companions think? How can we imagine the lives of our (non-human) animal friends? In this video essay, Lily Dog looks at Derrida’s writings and makes a case about how human and non-human understand each other – or not – based on her own life and adventures. Jacques Derrida was interested in animal consciousness and animal subjectivity, and he wrote about them both in The Animal That Therefore I Am – a text that Lily Dog quotes and speaks to in the video.
A lesbian college graduate, trying to bankroll her own photography business, works as a high-priced New York City escort.
