Lily Does Derrida: A Dog’s Video Essay (2010)

Name: Lily Does Derrida: A Dog’s Video Essay
Released: 2025-04-17
Duration: 29 min
Cast: Josh Thorson

Movie"A video essay made in collaboration with Lily Dog about companion animal relations, and interspecies communication."

NR 29 minDec 1st, 2010

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.

StarringJosh Thorson

DirectorKathy High

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