HOME SWEET HOME - A Silent Feature Film

“High Cost of Living!” - New Zealand Herald,  
 

“Rent Restriction law to end” - The Auckland Sun, 

“Roof taken off house! Effort to evict tenant!” - New Zealand Herald,

Sound like familiar headlines in your morning doom scroll? They're actually all from the 1920’s. 

Feeling nauseous? Like we are stuck in a dystopian time loop?  If the 1920’s are coming back around, what better way to highlight the absurdity of the housing crisis than through the lens of a slapstick silent film…

Home Sweet Home is a silent feature film about a passive-aggressive millennial renter with the pipe dream of owning a home of his own. When his frustration comes to a head, he kicks out his problem flatmate, only to be struck by instant karma, sending him on a cursed odyssey in and out of flats across Auckland, experiencing the brutal absurdity of the housing crisis in slapstick comedy fashion.

Set in 2025 Auckland, with a black and white aesthetic of 1925, Home Sweet Home depicts a world at risk of repeating the mistakes of the past. Already partly shot, Home Sweet Home is intended to be released during election year 26’ and will encourage audiences across Aotearoa to interrogate our nation's overriding capitalist view on housing.