MÚSICAS & PALAVRAS
LAIKA
Video editing:
Montag
Music:
Laika - If You Miss (Laika Virgin Mix)
Movie:
Space Dogs (2019) - Opening Scene - Directed by Elsa Kremser & Levin Peter
Colour footage of Laika, the soviet space dog, in Sputnik 2
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??/??/1954 - 11/03/1957
Dog-Star burning through a vast, black sky
Heaven-Wolf, so far above, yet we still hear your cry
Thirty thousand years your kind has kept our sacred bond
Laika, dear, your memory will always carry on
Jump at the sun
And if you miss
You can't help but grab some stars
Don't give me an answer
I'll wish I never asked
Vladimir Komarov can forgive me, but I couldn't care less that he "felt excellent" and that "everything was in order."
I care even less that his final words were:
"You idiots, you've put me in a defective spacecraft... (dirty words and slangs) I can't hear you! For God's sake, speak up, you fool! This damned spacecraft! Nothing I put my hands on works properly."
Or:
"This devilish spacecraft! Nothing I touch works the way it should."
Because no one ever asked Laika.
They simply launched her, and after five orbits, she was dead.
No statement.
No bark.
No growl.
Yet everyone knows she suffered.
Dogs possess this innate gift of giving their lives for our species, even when they are cruelly confined inside spacecraft or apartments.
It makes little difference whether the journey is to the corner while you're distracted by your phone, or into space with no hope of ever returning.
That is why I paired the bitterly brilliant opening sequence of the 2019 documentary "Space Dogs," directed by Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter, with the beautiful "If You Miss" by the British duo Laika, and simply called the resulting piece "Laika."
May she spend all eternity gnawing on Komarov's shinbone—and the shinbones of every Russian already dead.
She's earned it.
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