Director Alyx Duncan set out to make an experimental documentary about her childhood home. What eventually resulted was this acclaimed and award-winning "fictional essay", her first full length feature. Blurring the line between documentary and drama, she cast her conservationist father and Chinese born step-mother as characters partially based on themselves. As they journey from a small NZ island to a big Chinese city, Duncan examines their cross cultural relationship and explores nostalgia, childhood, dreams, environmentalism, globalisation and the meaning of home.
...a magnificent first feature which has all the hallmarks of a personal story lovingly crafted by someone with a real flair for the visual ... impressively affecting in its purity and simplicity.– Sarah Watt in a Sunday -Star-Times review, 17 March 2013
The Red House
Soundtrack by David Long
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