“It’s almost as though the way the poem is written there are many chapters in the book. The titles change from time to time, and the choices seem deliberate- The Lone Star Ranger, Le Secret du Manoir Hanté, a chapter in The Broken Halo-“Rosemary for Remembrance.” It appears to have been an effective approach.ĭorfman’s painted images ripple across the fast turning pages of an old book. I’d go into my studio every day not knowing what lay ahead and I’d think, “Okay, so, what do we have up next? What’s the next line? And I’d spend maybe a week on a line of the poem, animating it. It just takes so long and as I got into it and realized that this was going to be a marathon, not a sprint, the images just kept coming to me and I really just made it up as I went along. So as an artist, as a filmmaker, I thought, “I have to crank this out” but there’s no fast and easy way to do animation. There was this feeling that this could go away in a month, so this better be finished soon, so it’s still relevant.
Writing the new poem gave her “an anchor” and a place to put her anxiety.ĭorfman notes that the project, which was commissioned by the National Film Board of Canada as part of a short film collection about Canadians navigating life during the pandemic, was “essentially catalyzed by COVID.”Īs she embarked on the project, she wondered if the pandemic would be over by the time it was complete. Now it is cordoned off with black and yellow caution tape, a familiar public health measure in 2020.Īs with the earlier project, a large part of Davis’ purpose was to reflect and reassure, both herself, and by extension, others.Īlthough she has become a poster child for the joys of solitude, she also relishes human contact, and found herself missing it terribly while sheltering alone in the early days of the pandemic. That bench reappears in their 2020 follow up, How to Be At Home, above.
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