The Tide Keeper

The Tide Keeper is concise, intelligent, beautiful and moving. This film created another world within a world, incorporating an intriguing sense of choreographic movement and the best elements of story-telling and cinema. It is totally original.

– The 2015 Show Me Shorts judging team on The Tide Keeper

...I was interested in exploring in a surreal way, how it feels when the causes you were committed to and the contributions you made don’t have the same emphasis now as you grow older. Your impact in the world is waning ... we were exploring [my father's] personal feeling of the growing tide of environmental vulnerability, his fears for the ocean, and impact of each of us has as individuals in the household waist we produce.

– Writer/director Alyx Duncan, on the NZ Film Commission website