Where I'm From (Original French title: D'où je viens) is a 2014 National Film Board of Canada documentary by Claude Demers [fr], exploring his childhood in the working class city of Verdun, Quebec and contrasting his experiences with life today in Verdun, now a multi-cultural borough of Montreal.[1][2][3]
Where I'm From focuses on two neighbourhood boys who serve as stand-ins for Demers as a child, as well as a variety of local characters. The film explores the changing face of Verdun as well as the filmmaker's anger and unhappiness as a child, due in part to his being adopted.[1] The film also explores the powerful role that the Saint Lawrence River, which borders Verdun, has played in his own imaginative life growing up, as well as the lives of the children in his film.[4]
Demers has stated that it also represented a creative risk to make a documentary film not based on interviews, as he had previously done, but rather a personal film that attempts to see life through the eyes of child.[5]
Demers, who now lives in Mile End, Montreal, rented an apartment in his old neighbourhood for three months to regain a feel for the neighbourhood as he planned his shoot. During that process, five key themes emerged that became central to the film, according to the director: "Childhood. The relationship with nature. Faith. The words. And struggle. That was my guideline."[1]
The film completed a trilogy of documentary works by Demers—previously a fiction filmmaker— that he was inspired to make after finally meeting his biological mother. She has told him that his biological father was Italian, which inspired a film about traditional Montreal barbers, many of whom were from Italy, entitled Barbiers – Une histoire d'hommes. Demers' follow up film, Les dames en bleu, was about Quebec singer Michel Louvain and his legion of mostly female fans from his mother's generation.[6]
^ abcdKelly, Brendan (22 December 2014). "Claude Demers gets very personal in new documentary set in Verdun". Montreal Gazette. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
^Lavoie, André (23 December 2014). "Tous les chemins mènent à Verdun". Le Devoir (in French). Retrieved 27 December 2014.
^ abSohal, Raji (24 December 2014). "Where I'm From documentary shines lens on Verdun" (video). CBC Montreal. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
^Hontebeyrie, Isabelle (28 December 2014). "D'où je viens: Claude Demers entre passé et avenir". Canoe.ca (in French). Archived from the original on December 28, 2014. Retrieved 28 December 2014.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^Couture, Philippe (27 December 2014). "D'où je viens / Entrevue avec Claude Demers". Voir (in French). Retrieved 27 December 2014.
^Gignac, Martin (23 December 2014). "D'où je viens: le retour aux sources de Claude Demers". Métro (in French). Retrieved 27 December 2014.
^"Where I'm From (D'où je viens) by Claude Demers to open in theatres in Montreal and Quebec City on December 26". Press release. NFB. 2 December 2014. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
External linksedit
Official website
Where I'm From at Excentris website
Where I'm From at Hot Docs
May 02, 2024
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