After developing groundbreaking techniques in several early works, Canadian-American filmmaker Caroline Leaf found a home at the National Film Board of Canada, where she produced numerous films, including the Academy Award–nominated The Street. Her intimate films focus on familiar spaces that we share as families and communities, with simply observed stories that are true to life. Her tactile manipulation of materials under the camera mirrors the themes in her work, creating fluid transitions between places and evoking the ongoing metamorphosis of her characters. The mundane passage of time is rendered with care and grace.