The Pace of Home
Channel: CAM/MAC Anthropologie / Anthropology / U Ottawa
Date: 2018-12-05

By: Gabrielle Jodoin 

Not everyone can say they have a home, but some people are lucky enough to be able to say they have more than one. “The Pace of Home” is a short ethnographic film that focuses on an interview with a 23-year-old woman named Amy-Lee Parent who talks about what home means to her. She speaks about her home town of Kapuskasing; Toronto, which is where she went to school; and finally, Ottawa, which is where she currently lives. She also compares the speed of life in all three places, and through this, the film demonstrates that the romanticized perceptions of rural and urban life are not necessarily as black and white as they might seem. Small towns surrounded by nature still need to be in touch with modernity and the opposite is also true: the city still needs some form of nature. Finally, “The Pace of Home” is about finding one’s place in the world, which usually means finding one’s home.