bookofjoe

'How To Be At Home'

YouTube description by filmmaker Andrea Dorfman: 

Ten years after Tanya Davis wrote the gorgeous poem "How To Be Alone," she's done it again with a poignant poem for these times, "How to Be at Home," and the two of us found ourselves collaborating again.

This animation was created in my home studio in Halifax, Nova Scotia, while in social isolation through the spring and summer of 2020.

Hand-in-glove

Created by Brussels-based Mia Schmallenbach, who wrote:

"Cette paire de moufles adulte/enfants illustre de manière poétique le partage de la chaleur. Lorsque l’adulte tient la main de l’enfant, ils ne sont pas séparés par du tissus: le contact charnel est retrouvé à l’intérieur du gand."

This pair of adult/child mittens poetically illustrates the sharing of warmth. When the adult holds the child's hand, they are not separated by fabric: physical contact is found inside the glove.

What is it?

Answer here this time tomorrow.

Hint: bigger than a bread box.

Another: moving parts.

A third: inedible.