How to Be At Home

How to Be At Home
Directed byAndrea Dorfman
Written byTanya Davis
Produced byAnnette Clarke
Narrated byTanya Davis
Edited byAndrea Dorfman
Music byTanya Davis
Daniel Ledwell
Production
company
Release date
  • 2020 (2020)
Running time
5 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

How to Be At Home is a Canadian short film, directed by Andrea Dorfman and released in 2020.[1] A sequel to her 2010 short film How to Be Alone, the film illustrates a spoken word piece by poet Tanya Davis about coping with isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic.[2]

The film was created for The Curve, a National Film Board of Canada film series about life during the pandemic.[3]

The film was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's year-end Canada's Top Ten list for short films.[4]

  1. ^ Morgan Mullin, "Andrea Dorfman and Tanya Davis teach us How To Be At Home". The Coast, September 24, 2020.
  2. ^ Alex Billington, "Watch: 'How to Be at Home' Short Film with Stop-Motion Animation". First Showing, November 6, 2020.
  3. ^ Dave McGinn, "Why the NFB’s breakout short film How to Be at Home leans into loneliness". The Globe and Mail, October 19, 2020.
  4. ^ Victoria Ahearn, "Toronto International Film Festival releases Top Ten lists for 2020" Archived 2021-01-04 at the Wayback Machine. Squamish Chief, December 9, 2020.