How to Be at Home

Réalisé par Andrea Dorfman

Canada, 2020 (animation, 5 minutes, couleurs, anglais)

Autre titre : « À la maison »

Image : © Office national du film du Canada

Vidéo (Office national du film du Canada) [anglais]
Vidéo (Office national du film du Canada)

Description du film :
« Embrassez la solitude — et sachez que vous n'êtes pas seul(e). La cinéaste Andrea Dorfman unit de nouveau son talent à celui de la poétesse Tanya Davis dans une animation sensible et profonde sur le thème de l'isolement, une suite intelligente et intensément lyrique à leur succès viral How to Be Alone. »
-- Office national du film du Canada (source)

Générique (partiel) :
Produit par :	Annette Clarke
Animation :	Andrea Dorfman
Montage images :	Andrea Dorfman
Musique :	Tanya Davis, Daniel Ledwell
Société de production :	National Film Board of Canada / Office national du film du Canada
Générique additionnel :	Poem Writing and Performance / Poème - écriture et interprétation : Tanya Davis

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Citation de la réalisatrice [en anglais]

« I wanted to work in acrylics, but supply and shipping were disrupted by the pandemic and I couldn't get animation paper [for How to Be at Home]—but I had lots of books. I love animated projects that use books (especially The Opposites Game by Lisa LaBracio) and I was curious. Also, the motif of a book—of reading, an activity we might turn to while isolated at home—lent itself well to the theme of the poem. The books, themselves, were another story. I wanted old books that had yellowing pages. I found several books in my boyfriend's mother's basement and the rest came from a friend who works at a second-hand bookstore. I used around 15 books in total. »
-- Andrea Dorfman (source)

Citation sur How to Be at Home [en anglais]

« The nearly five-minute film [How to Be at Home] has become the breakout star of The Curve, a collection of short films commissioned by the National Film Board to capture life in Canada during COVID-19. It has been viewed more than 55,000 times since it was released in September [2020]. The topics of the 20 short films in the series so far span everything from cycling through the empty streets of Vancouver to a young man's coming out to his family. 'Every artist had carte blanche to make a piece of art,' says Julie Roy, director-general of creation and innovation at the NFB. Filmmakers were given two directives: Whatever they made, it had to be in some way about life during the pandemic, and they had to follow local health guidelines while making their films. »
-- Dave McGinn (source)

Bibliographie sur How to Be at Home

Articles de journaux, de revues grand public ou de sites d'information en ligne

ANIMATION MAGAZINE. « Short-form magic », Animation Magazine, vol. 35, no. 6, juin-juillet 2021. [en anglais]
MCGINN, Dave. « NFB's new breakout short embraces loneliness », Globe and Mail, 20 octobre 2020. [en anglais]

Sites Web sur How to Be at Home

NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA. « NFB -- How to Be at Home », National Film Board of Canada, http://onf-nfb.gc.ca/en/our-collection/?idfilm=71928. [en anglais]
OFFICE NATIONAL DU FILM DU CANADA. « ONF -- À la maison », Office national du film du Canada, http://onf-nfb.gc.ca/fr/notre-collection/?idfilm=72095.