{"id":43259,"date":"2013-04-26T17:05:13","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T21:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?p=43259"},"modified":"2013-04-28T15:31:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-28T19:31:00","slug":"hot-docs-tiny-a-story-about-living-small","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2013\/04\/26\/hot-docs-tiny-a-story-about-living-small\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Docs: Tiny: A Story About Living Small"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Most of us have lived small at one point or another. University dorms, basement bachelor pads, first homes\u2014we\u2019ve all felt space-compromised. But, barring a stint in prison, you\u2019ve probably never negotiated the confines of the spaces depicted in Tiny <\/i>long term.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s tiny? These houses start at 58 square feet, and 120-200 square feet seems standard.<\/p>\n

Tiny: A Story About Living Small <\/i>captures the tiny house movement, with a focus on the directors\u2019 own tiny house-building project. And yes, it is a movement, complete with an active blogging scene, a tiny house building company (whose founder, after two kids, has moved on to a 500 square foot \u2018mansion\u2019), and ‘micro-architects’.<\/p>\n

Why tiny? Over and over again, tiny house dwellers speak of the freedom they feel in living so small.\u00a0 Most are debt free, and their houses are almost always built on wheels, and so can be towed around. But tiny houses are about something big, too: they are a way to exercise a set of values. Tiny houses are the anti-McMansions: environmentally friendly, inexpensive, and lacking stuff<\/i>.\u00a0 Tammy Strobel, who quit her investment management job to write and lives in a 128 square foot house with her husband, puts it most succinctly: \u201cTiny houses force the question \u2018What\u2019s important to me?\u2019<\/p>\n

In Tiny<\/i>, living small is constantly used as a metaphor\u2014sometimes more convincingly than others. Tiny<\/i>\u2019s narrative centres on the director\u2019s own journey of self-discovery as he builds, but it shines when interviewing others, perhaps because they have more experience with actually living small. While opining on their project, it\u2019s occasionally unclear if directors and co-stars Chris and Merete are talking about their house or their vague relationship. Interviews with planning experts, architects, and long-term tiny housers, on the other hand, are a fascinating look into people celebrating what they\u2019ve given up, and what they\u2019ve gained.<\/p>\n

Tiny <\/em>is co-presented with\u00a0Spacing,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0screens tonight at 9:15 (rush), Monday, April 29 at 4 PM, and Sunday, May 5 at 1:30 (rush). More info and tickets are available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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