Poetry Video: How to be { Alone | At Home }

[jesse_the_k]

Poet Tanya Davis collaborates with filmmaker Andrea Dorfman to create poetry "music videos." From 2010, their How To Be Alone invites someone who may start with being lonely to embrace aloneness. From October 2020, How To Be At Home re-mixes that embrace of solitude with the sorrow of the current moment. An anonymous Philippine blogger transcribes the 2010 poem. No captions nor audio description, and the poet’s voice is so soft I can’t check the accuracy of the transcript.

Davis and Dorfman collaborate on more videos at Davis’ site: http://tanyadavis.ca/video/

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Comments

[sonia]

I had seen the second one, but not the first. Interesting to discover how they're in conversation. I checked the transcript and there are only a few minor differences that don't change the meaning.

The second one made me cry in a way that left me muttering about not wanting to feel that vulnerable. But hey, home alone no one knows about it until I post and tell.

Thanks for linking!

ETA: Also meant to say, I noticed all the people it took working together to make a video about being alone, and then I noticed that was mentioned in the second one. I hadn't consciously remembered that was in there.