Screenings

Festivals
London Film Festival, UK. 2001 - Premiere
Brief Encounters International Short Film Festival, Bristol, UK. 2001
EMAF, European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, Germany. 2002
International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany. 2002
Arcipelago International Festival of Films and New Images, Rome, Italy. 2002
Odense International Film Festival, Denmark. 2002
Mecal, 5th International Short Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain. 2002
Feminale Film Festival, Cologne,, Germany
Viper, International Festival for Film, Video and New Media, Switzerland. 2002
Pink Film Days, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2002
Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Festival for Expanded Media, Stuttgart Germany, 2002
Directora, International Womens’ Film Festival, Neurenberg, Germany, 2003
COURTisane, short film festival, Ghent, Belgium 2003
Mecal, 10th Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes de Barcelona.Spain. 10/07

Other Screenings
Experiments in Moving Image, London. 01/04
Filmbar, Hildeseim, Germany. 11/05
Suffragette City, The Spare Room Gallery, London. 07/08

Touring Programmes
‘‘Urban Visionaries' British Film Institute National Touring programme
National Museum of Film and TV, Bradford
Metro Cinema, London
Ritzy Cinema, London
Hull Screen / Hull Time based Arts
Manchester Cornerhouse
Dartington Barn
Now Festival, Broadway Media Centre, Nottingham
Glasgow Film Theatre
Liverpool Fact Centre
Message to Man Film Festival, St Petersburg.

European Media Arts Festival International Video Touring Programme 2002
Eisner Museum, Milwaukee, USA (Oct. 2002)
Goethe-Institut, Chicago, USA (Oct. 2002)
KoKi, Freiburg, Germany (Dec. 2002)
Kino 46, Bremen, Germany (Dec. 2002)
Goethe-Institut, Guadalajara, Mexico (Jan 2003)
Caixa Forum, Barcelona, Spain (Jan 2003)
Premier Plans, Angers, France (Jan 2003)
Goethe-Institut, Danzig, Poland (May 2003)
Goethe-Institut, Warschau, Poland (May 2003)
Goethe-Institut, Bratislava, Slovakia (June 2003)

Gallery
'Living in This Mess' group exhibition. Morley Gallery, London. January 2003
'Staged' Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, UK. 2nd December 2004

Theatrical release
Ritzy Cinema, London April 12-26 2002

Reviews
Resolutely personal and imaginative … colour-rich, witty and suggestive
Gareth Evans, Time Out

Roz Mortimer takes us on a fairy-tale journey into the latently perverted world of the love between small girls and dogs.
Anna Jacobsen, Feminale Film Festival, Cologne

DOG of MY DREAMS is [a] documentary style, love poem to the dog. Cineast and artist Roz Mortimer shows how little girls form very intimate and exclusive emotional bonds with their four legged friends. Mortimer has been fascinated for years with female sexuality and previous films related women with worms, tadpoles and snails (sic), mostly revolving around desire and sensuality instead of sex. The implicit eroticism in DOG OF MY DREAMS ("his soft rosy tongue came darting out between his white teeth") shows that children also are sensual creatures, an idea still ignored by society.
Over backgrounds of words and images from Piero di Cosimo to Joan Baez ("Old Blue") to Virginia Woolf, women tell about their youthful experiences with their dogs, problems with the family and sexual repression. These beautiful dogs in turn take the role of child (in a great scene the girl shaves the hairs of her dog and imitates a grownup) and victim (the girl urinates in the dog-basket, not only a sexual reference, but also an expression of the position of power). Virginal angel hair, anthropomorphic eye contact and wonderfully beautiful choreographies make DOG OF MY DREAMS as simple as complex, a surprisingly warm picture.
Julie Decabooter, FILM magazine, Belgium, July 2002

Credits
Cast: Charlotte Andrew, Scarlet Billham, Georgia Climpson, Danielle Kerley, Taryn McCarthy, Jodie McLaren, Jodie Mooney

Photography: Michael Miles
Costume: Clara Apollo
Make up: Madeleine van Groeningen
Production Manager: Helen Kelsey
Sound: Jon Wilkinson, Maciek Hrybowicz
Rostrum Camera: Ken Morse
Online editor: Brian King
Graphic Design: Jeremy Williams

Music: 'Old Blue' performed by Joan Baez courtesy of Joan Baez and Vanguard records
Archive: Piero di Cosimo's 'Satyr Mourning Over a Nymph' reproduced by permission of the National Gallery / Looking After Porgy' reproduced by permission of the Shell Film Unit / Look and Learn1962' reproduced by permission of IPC Media / Virginia Woolf's 'Flush' reproduced by permission of The Society of Authors / Enid Blyton's 'The Adventures of Scamp' reproduced by permission of Enid Blyton Limited / Claude Cénac's 'Four Paws into Adventure' reproduced by permission of Éditions Magnard

Funded by: The London Production Fund

Produced and directed by Roz Mortimer