Délia 9 to 5
2018 · 3m · Canada
Directed by Délia Gunn
Genres: documentary
Director Délia Gunn films a tender, humorous day in her own life at Réservoir-Dozois while eight months pregnant.
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A pregnant director filming her own workday sounds like the safest doc premise imaginable—and then Gunn just *lives* in the frame with such unselfconscious specificity that the whole 'navel-gazing' thing collapses into something genuinely strange and alive.
Gunn's formal restraint—letting the day unfold without narrative scaffolding—positions this quietly within a lineage of essayistic self-portraiture, though the tonal balance between tenderness and humor feels delicately calibrated rather than arrived at.
The decision to film herself at actual work, unglamorous and in-body, rather than reflect *about* pregnancy, transforms a personal document into something that earns its intimacy through stubborn refusal to perform—that choice is everything here.