Between wolves and memory: Bearing witness in “When Dogs Bark”

Synopsis: After his father’s lambs are brutally slaughtered, an intellectual son returns to his widowed father’s remote shack, where he’s drawn into his father’s growing fear that the past is repeating itself. There is a sacredness in death, if decay doesn’t discomfort you — if you know what it looks like. When Dogs Bark, beautifully shot in black and white and framed in a 4:3 aspect ratio, opens with a dead lamb, evoking the Agnus Dei. An apt symbol of sacrifice. Yet, unlike the