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Ovidiu Anton and Alexandru B膬l膬艧escu: Smells like paradise
Two dogs, two cities, two voices: one male, one female."Smells like paradise", the 'dogumentary' by Ovidiu Anton and Alexandru B膬l膬艧escu, presents a simple and clear experimental set-up: a mongrel from Bucharest, the metropolis which was for a long time known as the city of stray dogs, was adopted in Vienna and domesticated under the conditions of a civilizing and bureaucratically regulated contact with animals. The parallel mounted opposite story is that of a bitch from Vienna who comes to the Romanian capital with her owners, runs away, and there, in the urban jungle of the post-socialist milieu, step by step learns the way of life of a free-roaming animal with no connection to human functions of protection and feeding.
These stories are told from the perspective of the animals, and are provided with commentaries, aper莽us, and philosophical speculations regarding the coexistence of dog and man and themes such as exile, migration, urban planning and political power structures.
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Two dogs, two cities, two voices: one male, one female."Smells like paradise", the 'dogumentary' by Ovidiu Anton and Alexandru B膬l膬艧escu, presents a simple and clear experimental set-up: a mongrel from Bucharest, the metropolis which was for a long time known as the city of stray dogs, was adopted in Vienna and domesticated under the conditions of a civilizing and bureaucratically regulated contact with animals. The parallel mounted opposite story is that of a bitch from Vienna who comes to the Romanian capital with her owners, runs away, and there, in the urban jungle of the post-socialist milieu, step by step learns the way of life of a free-roaming animal with no connection to human functions of protection and feeding.
These stories are told from the perspective of the animals, and are provided with commentaries, aper莽us, and philosophical speculations regarding the coexistence of dog and man and themes such as exile, migration, urban planning and political power structures.
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