Music video,
2:57 minutes,
English,
BC,
2009
Synopsis
"Carleen gets dressed and goes to comedy class, tears in her eyes her heavy heart laughs.”
The first line of Katie Ormiston’s beautifully written song about Carleen’s journey to overcome tragedy with humour says it all.
Creative team
Writer/director/producer: Carleen Kyle
Writer: Katie Ormiston
Producer: Gordon Rempel
Personal statement
Carleen Kyle says:
"After a series of family tragedies I wondered if I could recover from trauma using humour, so I took a stand-up comedy class and decided to bring a camera crew along.
My dear friend Katie Ormiston of Pawn Shop Diamond showed up at my house with her guitar and a song that she’d written about what I was doing. I listened to the song and when I stopped crying I featured it in my documentary Heavy Heart Laughs."