Where I'm From (2014)
- Original title
- D'où je viens
- Directed by
- Claude Demers
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 1h 22m
- Rated
- 14A
- Rating
- 8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- 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
The filmmaker returns to his childhood neighborhood in Verdun, Quebec. He observes two local boys and other residents to contrast his own past with the area's present.
nostalgicintrospectivecontemplativepersonalobservationalmelancholicgentlereflective
What happens
Where I'm From (French: D'où je viens) is a 2013 National Film Board of Canada documentary by Claude Demers, exploring his childhood in the working class city of Verdun, Quebec and contrasting his experiences with life today in Verdun, now a multi-cultural borough of Montreal. Where I'm From focuses on two neighbourhood boys who serve as stand-ins for Demers as a child, as well as a variety of local characters. The film explores the changing face of Verdun as well as the filmmaker's anger and unhappiness as a child, due in part to his being adopted. The film also explores the powerful role that the Saint Lawrence River, which borders Verdun, has played in his own imaginative life growing up, as well as the lives of the children in his film. Demers has stated that it also represented a creative risk to make a documentary film not based on interviews, as he had previously done, but rather a personal film that attempts to see life through the eyes of child. Demers, who now lives in Mile End, Montreal, rented an apartment in his old neighbourhood for three months to regain a feel for the neighbourhood as he planned his shoot. During that process, five key themes emerged that became central to the film, according to the director: "Childhood. The relationship with nature. Faith. The words. And struggle. That was my guideline." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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