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This Film is a Dog

Parental guidance recommended for younger viewers 1996 Short film
  • Experimental
  • Comedy

Complete with hardboiled voiceover, this black and white short film follows canine filmmaker Quinn Hud to the dog-eat-dog world of the Cannes Film Festival, to sell his latest work. Director Jonathan Ogilvie honed his skills making music videos for Flying Nun bands. He shot the Super 8 footage for this tale when his short film Despondent Divorcee screened at Cannes in 1995. Quinn Hud’s 18 second epic features as a film within a film — and the cavalcade of stars alone would warrant watching this witty Tropfest winner, which was also chosen for competition at Cannes and Telluride).