My Prairie Home
Invited
Transgender singer-songwriter Rae Spoon (who uses the gender-neutral pronoun “they”) embarks on a tour across Canada. Their genre-defying music, a combination of folk, country, indie rock, and electronica, is as impossible to categorize as their sex. On long Greyhound bus rides and in drab motel rooms, Spoon shares details about their childhood and family—an evangelical upbringing, abuse by a schizophrenic father, first-time love with a girl in high school. Punctuating these musings are director Chelsea McMullan’s quirky, stylized music videos, in which Spoon wields their voice and acoustic guitar at an old-fashioned diner, in a John Hughes–style prom scene, and alongside dinosaurs at a history museum, among others. Surreal, poetic, and entertaining, this impressionistic musical documentary is a simultaneously playful and revealing portrait of a talented, untraditional artist. EM
Director
Chelsea McMullan
Producer
Lea Marin
Editor
Avril Jacobson
Cinematographers
Maya Bankovic, Derek Howard
Release Year
2013
Festival Year
2014
Country
Canada
Run Time
77 minutes