Animal cruelty by any other name

Animal cruelty comes in many shapes and sizes. I believe you cannot explain away cruelty by using age as a factor. So I was pleased to see San Francisco stop this man's art project before he got started. It seems this artist made a film after he went to a shelter, adopted a dog, shot the dog and filmed it. This was art according to him. That was in 1977, two years after I graduated from high school. I would have been horrified then and I am now.
Cruelty is cruelty and I hope he learned his lesson. Not that I could afford it but I won't be buying anything he sells any time soon.