How to Be Alone (2010)
- Directed by
- Andrea Dorfman
- Country
- Canada
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A short film animates a poem about ways to spend time alone after a breakup. It offers suggestions for finding comfort and confidence in your own company.
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What happens
How to Be Alone is a Canadian short film, directed by Andrea Dorfman and released in 2009. The film animates a spoken word piece by poet Tanya Davis about things that a person can do on their own after the breakup of a relationship. The film premiered on October 6, 2009, at the Vancouver International Film Festival, and was subsequently broadcast on Bravo's Bravo!FACT Presents short film anthology series. In 2010 Dorfman uploaded the film to YouTube, where it quickly went viral, attracting over a million views in a matter of a few weeks. In 2013 Davis released a book edition of the poem, with illustrations by Dorfman. In 2020, Dorfman and Davis released the sequel film How to Be At Home, animating another spoken word piece about coping with isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic, as part of the National Film Board of Canada's The Curve series. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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