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Home Cooked Music

This short documentary profiles an imaginative inventor and craftsman who makes whimsical stringed instruments out of unlikely items. In his hands, shovels, rakes, baseball bats, and stop signs become beautiful and functional guitars, violins, banjos, and fiddles. After a near-death experience, retired machinist Lorne Collie embarked on his creative journey, and this heartening film offers a folksy, one-of-a-kind portrait of Collie's spirit and talent. Through weathered doc footage and hand-crafted animation, the film shows that Collie is having more fun than he’s had in a long time and feeling more than alive.
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This short documentary profiles an imaginative inventor and craftsman who makes whimsical stringed instruments out of unlikely items. In his hands, shovels, rakes, baseball bats, and stop signs become beautiful and functional guitars, violins, banjos, and fiddles.

After a near-death experience, retired machinist Lorne Collie embarked on his creative journey, and this heartening film offers a folksy, one-of-a-kind portrait of Collie's spirit and talent. Through weathered doc footage and hand-crafted animation, the film shows that Collie is having more fun than he’s had in a long time and feeling more than alive.

Crafts Music All subjects
  • writer
    Mike Maryniuk
  • director
    Mike Maryniuk
  • producer
    Brendon Sawatzky
  • director of photography
    Mike Maryniuk
  • editor
    Mike Maryniuk
    Deco Dawson
  • sound design
    Paul Morrow
    Bruce Little
  • music editor
    Paul Morrow
  • dialogue editor
    Paul Morrow
  • background effects editor
    Paul Morrow
  • re-recording mixer
    Bruce Little
  • participant
    Lorne Collie
    Grant Siemens
    Helen Collie
    Matt Peters
    Aaron Zeghers
    Jaxon Haldane
  • sound recordist
    Mike Maryniuk
    Matt Peters
  • on-site mix
    Matt Peters
  • camera assistant
    Aaron Zeghers
    Josh Marr
  • production assistant
    Gwen Trutnau
  • additional photography
    Josh Marr
    Aaron Zeghers
  • colourist
    Tony Wytinck
  • online editor
    Tony Wytinck
  • original music
    Grant Siemens
    Lorne Collie
  • animation
    Mike Maryniuk
  • additional animation
    Curtis Wiebe
    Andrew Milne
  • art department
    Gwen Trutnau
    Curtis Wiebe
    Andrew Milne
    Mike Maryniuk
  • puppet design
    Gwen Trutnau
    Mike Maryniuk
  • researcher
    Mike Maryniuk
    Jaxon Haldane
  • transcription
    Sharon Murphy
  • production coordinator
    Ginette D'Silva
    Faye Yoneda
  • production supervisor
    Mark Power
  • marketing manager
    Kelley Alexander
  • centre operations manager
    Darin Clausen
  • program administrator
    Bree Beach
  • executive producer
    David Christensen

Education

Ages 8 to 15
School subjects
Arts Education - Music Family Studies/Home Economics - Aging/Death and Dying Health/Personal Development - Human Growth and Development Media Education - Documentary Film

Ideal for classes and projects on music, creativity and aging. What do you think is inspirational about Lorne Collie? Draw diagrams of fantastical musical instruments and explain how they work. Create musical instruments out of junk or useless objects. Form small musical groups, compose music for your instruments and put on a concert. What can we learn about music and human ingenuity from this film? Search online and find other examples of machines that have been built out of junk.

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