Borrowing and Stealing: Alyx Duncan Talks about Making The Red House

Alyx Duncan began work on The Red House thinking she was making a documentary. When her father and stepmother announced they were leaving the house she grew up in on an island in Auckland's Hauraki Gulf, she was moved to make a record of it. But, rather than cinema, The Red House an artistic enterprise; it is closer to documentation than fictionalisation.

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