BAXTER AND ME
AUSTRALIA / DOCUMENTARY / 2016
DIRECTOR: GILLIAN LEAHY
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 10
5.00 - 6.30PM / ANNEXE
FOLLOWED BY A Q&A WITH DIRECTOR
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Short Film
F***ING MOSQUITO
Filmmaker, activist, teacher and dog trainer Gillian Leahy tells a story of her life through her daily dealings with big, brown, beautiful Baxter, a Labrador dog, and asks: “What am I doing with a large wild animal in my kitchen and my bed? Do we really love dogs? Do they love us? Maybe this is how we all should live, in company with loving animals?” The film gently observes this relationship through immersive poetic images, teamed with music and song, raising serious questions about inter-species intimacy, love and affection, and the broader question – if we can love and empathise with dogs like this, how can we justify our treatment of other non-human animals?
