A little background: My Winnipeg was Guy Maddin's commissioned documentary about his home city. He used the opportunity to take the viewer on a sleepy, surreal tour of his childhood. Meanwhile, To the Lighthouse is widely seen as Virginia Woolf's most autobiographical novel, depicting two days with an alternate version of her family, and the ten years in-between. If I had to be crude, I would say that the latter is about things changing, and the former is about things staying the same. I only have about six hundred words left for this section, so that might be as insightful as I get.