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Good Girl... Sit Down!

By Anne Haugsgjerd
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She’s against dressage. She’s against censorship. She gets nauseous looking at her footage. She seeks psychological counselling.

About the film

A filmmaker who is a strong opponent of dog breeding, struggles to watch the film she's directed herself. Good Girl... Sit Down! is a humorous and feministexploration of the world of dog shows and dog breeding.

About the filmmaker

Anne Haugsgjerd (b. 1944) was originally trained as a graphic artist at the Norwegian School of Crafts and Design, but has been making films since the 1980s. She works in the short film format and in the intersection between fiction and documentary. She herself has described her often humorous and reflective, biographical and self-revealing films as "bastards". Her most famous film Life at Frogner (1986) received both the Amanda nomination and the audience award at the Short Film Festival in Grimstad. Later, she has been presented several times at the renowned Oberhausen short film festival where also More Woman, More Cry premiered.

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