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How To Be At Home

Lean into loneliness — and know you’re not alone in it. Filmmaker Andrea Dorfman reunites with poet Tanya Davis to craft tender and profound animation on the theme of isolation, providing a wise and soaringly lyrical sequel to their viral hit How to Be Alone.
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Lean into loneliness — and know you’re not alone in it. Filmmaker Andrea Dorfman reunites with poet Tanya Davis to craft tender and profound animation on the theme of isolation, providing a wise and soaringly lyrical sequel to their viral hit How to Be Alone.

Psychology and Psychiatry All subjects
  • director
    Andrea Dorfman
  • animator
    Andrea Dorfman
  • editor
    Andrea Dorfman
  • poem writing
    Tanya Davis
  • poem performance
    Tanya Davis
  • producer
    Annette Clarke
  • original music
    Tanya Davis
    Daniel Ledwell
  • sound design
    Sacha Ratcliffe
  • music recording
    Daniel Ledwell
    Tanya Davis
  • online editor
    Yannick Carrier
  • re-recording
    Geoffrey Mitchell
  • digital editing technician
    Pierre Dupont
    Marie-Josée Gourde
    Patrick Trahan
  • sound technician
    Bernard Belley
  • title design
    Jacques Bertrand Simard
  • production supervisor
    Roz Power
  • technical coordinator
    Daniel Lord
    Chris MacIntosh
  • senior production coordinator
    Kelly Davis
  • studio administrator
    Leslie Anne Poyntz
  • marketing manager
    Johanna Lessard
  • legal council
    Dominique Aubry
  • executive producer
    Annette Clarke
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