简介：StateofDogs(Mongolian:Нохойнорон,alternatelyNokhoinOron)isaMongolianmoviethatwasreleasedin1998,directedandwrittenbyPeterBrosensandDorjkhandynTurmunkh.Thefilmwasshownatthe1998VeniceFilmFestival,[1]the1998TorontoFilmFestival[1],the1999YamagataInternationalDocumentaryFilmFestival,[2]andwonthetheGrandPrixatthe1998VisionsduRéelfilmfestivalinNyon,Switzerland.[1] SetinMongolia'scapitalcity,UlanBator,thefilmcombinesdocumentaryelementswithfictionalelements[3]inthefragmented,impressionisticanddreamlikestoryofBaasar,adogwhodiesearlyinthemovie—shotbyahunteremployedbythecitytoreduceit'sdogpopulation,whichhasmorethanonedogforeachfourhumansinitspopulationof800,000.[4] AccordingtoMongolianlegend,adog(whoisprepared)maybereincarnatedinitsnextlifeasahuman,afterroamingfreeforaslongashewants.[5]Baasarroamsthememoryofhislife,uninterestedinadvancingtoahumanlife.[2] Thefilmincludesbriefinterludeswithasolareclipse,asegmentinwhichayoungmanrecitespoemsdirectlytothecamera,andadepictionofmodernMongolianlifewithundercurrentsofmysticismandmyth.[4] GarthStein,Americanauthorandfilmproducer,wasinspiredbyStateofDogs,towritehisbestsellingnovelTheArtofRacingintheRain.[6]…