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| How to Be Alone | |
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| Directed by | Andrea Dorfman |
| Written by | Tanya Davis |
| Produced by | Andrea Dorfman Walter Forsyth |
| Narrated by | Tanya Davis |
| Music by | Tanya Davis |
| Animation by | Andrea Dorfman |
Production company | Gorgeous Mistake Productions |
Release date |
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Running time | 5 minutes |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
How to Be Alone is a Canadian short film, directed by Andrea Dorfman and released in 2009. [1] The film animates a spoken word piece by poet Tanya Davis about things that a person can do on their own after the breakup of a relationship. [2]
The film premiered on October 6, 2009, at the Vancouver International Film Festival, and was subsequently broadcast on Bravo's Bravo!FACT Presents short film anthology series. [3] In 2010 Dorfman uploaded the film to YouTube, where it quickly went viral, attracting over a million views in a matter of a few weeks. [4]
In 2013 Davis released a book edition of the poem, with illustrations by Dorfman. [5]
In 2020, Dorfman and Davis released the sequel film How to Be At Home , animating another spoken word piece about coping with isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic, as part of the National Film Board of Canada's The Curve series. [6]
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