The American photo and video artist William Wegman is known for the ironic anecdotes and experiments which he stages using his Weimaraner dogs. In Spelling Lesson he gives a dog with the allusive name of Man Ray a lesson, subsequently correcting its test results: You spelleditB-E-E-C-H which is like... well, there’s agum called beech-nut, but we meant beach like the sand. So it should have beenB-E-A-C-H. In Dog Duet the dogs are again the main actors, here watching a tennis game that takes place off camera. The humour is based on the unexpected and sometimes quite human attitudes of the dogs, whose mime is at the same time read as being without expression, and on extended actions that lead to absurd anticlimax. So for example in the one-minute clip Deodorant, where for the entire duration of the take Wegman sprays deodorant on the hairs of his armpit, the artist keeps up a simultaneous enthusiastic spiel about the benefits of the product: You don’t have to worry about social nervousness.