How to Be Alone
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Canada, 2010 (experimental, 5 minutes, colour, English)
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| Image: © andreadorfman.com |
Film Description:
"A music video for the poem 'How to Be Alone' written by the wonderful and talented Tanya Davis."
-- andreadorfman.com
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| Film Credits (partial): |
| Produced by: |
Walter Forsyth |
| Cinematography: |
Andrea Dorfman |
| Animation: |
Andrea Dorfman |
| Film Editing: |
Andrea Dorfman |
| Music: |
Tanya Davis, Timothy Crabtree |
| Additional Credits: |
Poem Writing and Performance / Poème - écriture et interprétation : Tanya Davis |
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Quotes about How to Be Alone
"Within a week of [How to Be Alone] being on YouTube, it started snowballing out quite fast. We went into our local radio station here in Halifax when it was at 100,000 views rather quickly. It just caught on. Now it's at nearly 6 million views. It's really been amazing."
-- Tanya Davis
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"The video [How to Be Alone] was shared by various bloggers, until it reached influential film critic Roger Ebert, who tweeted about it. It now has more than 5 million views, and [Tanya] Davis has received many personal e-mails from viewers about it. [Andrea] Dorfman and Davis also toured the film to various festivals."
-- Sarah Greene
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"I consider this kind of pair-bonding-obsessed weepiness to be anti-feminist, retrograde and disempowering to women. But my opposition [to How to Be Alone] is not so much to this innocent piece of diaristic vlogging, but to the culture that upholds it as in some way exemplary of feminine behaviour, as some kind of useful balm for the wounds of a supposedly monolithically married society."
-- Russell Smith
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Bibliography for How to Be Alone
Articles from Newspapers, Magazines, or News Websites
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Knox, Carsten. "Poet Tanya Davis, YouTube hit, video muse." Globe and Mail, September 18, 2010.
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Smith, Russell. "Women need this video like a fish needs a bicycle." Globe and Mail, August 12, 2010.
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Toronto Star. "Canadian short film goes viral; More than a million watch How to Be Alone on YouTube website." Toronto Star, August 24, 2010.
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Weigel, Jennifer. "Learning to be alone: Poet-musician shares insights on recognizing the benefits of solitude." Interview with Tanya Davis. Chicago Tribune, November 24, 2013.
