Laurie Anderson is adapting her new feature film, Heart of a Dog, for Times Square in New York City. This unique edition of the film will be shown on Times Square's electronic billboards from 11:57 PM to midnight January 1–31. This project is a part of Midnight Moment, a monthly presentation by The Times Square Advertising Coalition (TSAC) and Times Square Arts.

On January 4, Anderson will be on site for a special live performance, joining NYPD canine handlers and their dogs for a gathering that will begin at 11:30 PM on Duffy Square (between 46th and 47th Streets) and culminate in the 11:57 viewing of the work. The event will be free and open to the public. Headphones will be distributed between 11:00 and 11:15 pm (first-come, first-served) and the public is encouraged to bring their own dogs.

Heart of a Dog is a collection of stories about dogs, time, family, love, memory and death. In the middle of the film there is a sequence from The Tibetan Book of the Dead that describes the transition of energy and consciousness at the time of death. In this portion of the film, which is the section that will be shown in Times Square, Anderson creates a visual song, filled with a wild collage of images. The video changes point of view frequently, shifting from a dog's eye view to the lens of a surveillance camera to free floating pictures that move through your mind in dreams and memories.

Anderson said, "I love Times Square. It's a dream. Desire, speed, the explosions of color, patterns and energy. What a great way to start the New Year! The ball drops and Heart of a Dog leaps onto all those massive screens at three minutes to midnight. Who could have predicted the unraveling dreams of my dog would be magnified up there like this? And sound too!"

Tim Tompkins, President of the Times Square Alliance, said, "Laurie's film brings our collected memories into the New Year through a layered and dense moving photo album of our minds."

Sherry Dobbin, Times Square Arts Director, said, "Laurie crafts journeys—alternative narratives, ones that seduce us into a sharing of mutual discovery. This Midnight Moment transposes her legendary cadence through a diverse visual language, one with which we can identify past and present as well objective and sentimental observance."

Fred Rosenberg, President of the Times Square Advertising Coalition, said, "Heart of a Dog gives TSAC such a wonderful opportunity to use our signs to celebrate a New York heroine of the cultural scene."

Heart of a Dog is now showing at theaters across the United States; to find out where, visit heartofadogfilm.com. The complete film soundtrack is out now on Nonesuch Records, available on iTunes and in the Nonesuch Store.

Midnight Moment is the largest coordinated effort in history by the sign operators in Times Square to display synchronized, cutting-edge creative content on electronic billboards and newspaper kiosks throughout Times Square every night. The program premiered in May 2012 and is organized and supported by the Times Square Advertising Coalition in partnership with Times Square Arts, the public art program of the Times Square Alliance, with additional partners of participating sign holders and artists. Past artists featured in the program include Andy Warhol, Antony, Robert Wilson, Björk, Yoko Ono, and others. For more information on past projects, click here.