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Laika film image, director Deborah Stratman

Laika

Canadian Premiere

Some forms we can only know by their shadow. Laika is an homage to the spirits of space test dogs, or any being we use in the name of progress.

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USA

Year

2022

Language

No Dialogue

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4 min

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Credits

Cinematography

Deborah Stratman

Editor

Deborah Stratman

Original Music

Olivia Block

Director

Deborah Stratman headshot, Laika director

Deborah Stratman

Artist and filmmaker Deborah Stratman makes films and artworks that investigate power, control, and belief by considering how places, ideas, and society are intertwined. Recent projects have addressed freedom, exodus, augury, surveillance, comets, raptors, orthoptera, sinkholes, levitation, sisterhood, and faith. She teaches at the University of Illinois in Chicago.

Filmography: The BLVD (1999); O’er the Land (2009); The Illinois Parables (2016)