A new short documentary follows a pet tracker on his quest to find lost dogs in and around New York City. Watch here.
Armed with night-vision trail cameras, a large cage, and a generous cache of hot dogs, Jim Tierney embarks on nighttime stakeouts in and around New York.
The opening scenes of “Shadow of a Dog,” a short documentary by Sean Paulsen and Brad Wickham, feel like something from a film noir. Sirens whine in the background; informants call with tips; shots of derelict cityscapes suggest the loneliness of life on the lam. But Jim Tierney, the hardboiled detective on the case, is not looking for a perp. He’s looking for a pup.a “dogcatcher,” a term that, Paulsen pointed out when we spoke, has an air of cartoonish villainy.
Runaway dogs typically hide out during the day, and so Tierney conducts his searches by night. Depending on where a dog was last spotted—a construction site, an industrial zone, an airport tarmac—there can be a vigilante aspect to his approach. Tierney’s accustomed to crawling under fences and ignoring “Do Not Enter” signs. He usually manages to slip away before dawn, but whenever he tangles with the authorities the truth is his best defense.
The film’s drama arises not from dialogue, of which there’s little, but from Tierney’s movements in the shadows, his frustrations and quiet determination accented by Paulsen’s plucky, haunting score. In the grainy black-and-white footage from the trail cams, we watch Tierney grappling with the cage, even climbing into it at times, like some of the other nocturnal prowlers caught on tape.
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