The Deceptively Simple Need for a Home (on Other People’s Land)

Alana Hunt
Australien | 2026 | 21 min
Weltpremiere
Sprache : Englisch
Untertitel : Französisch

So wie man in einem alten Tagebuch stöbert, besucht eine Frau die 14 Häuser, in denen sie als Kind gewohnt hat. In statischer Anmut lässt die Kamera die Erinnerungen fliessen. Eine Wand ist undicht, ein Baum wird zum Freund, ein Körper verändert sich, Diana stirbt, eine Mutter kämpft. Zwischen Anekdoten und einschneidenden Ereignissen nimmt ein politisches Bewusstsein Gestalt an: denn diese Häuser sind auf dem Land der Aborigines gebaut.

“In this rented house”: the phrase accompanies each house plan like a refrain. The narrator summons her memories and sensations, slowly piecing together the story of a happy childhood: pets, imaginary games, the first stirrings of emotion, yet marked by the precarity of never being entirely at home. Unplanned roommates, horrible neighbours, a leaky roof. Implicitly, the portrait also emerges of a mother who struggles to provide stability, relocates furniture as if attempting to shift fate, counts pennies, moves again, and holds on... However, seen in the Australian context, the basic, universal need for a home leads to colonial violence: every house is built on the displacement of other lives. Growing up then becomes understanding, and personal memory becomes collective history. Poised between tenderness and lucidity, this sensitive, critical film whispers to us that to inhabit, sometimes, is also to reside in the absence of others.

Anne Delseth

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