The House Within | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

The House Within is a feature length documentary film on the internationally celebrated New Zealand writer Fiona Kidman. | dG1fMmdTd081QXRIMkU

Transcript

00:01In order to write, we need to go within.

00:13I am very interested in surfaces and what lies beneath them.

00:17I always have been.

00:21What I recall most of that night

00:23is how the passion fruit flowers were rich on the vine.

00:27Their scent as surreal as the man weeping

00:31and walking along the rough avenue,

00:33with only a child to observe his fall.

00:39From that moment on, I thought that writing was something that changed things.

00:48I used to be able to hear a conversation three tables away in a restaurant.

00:53Friends complained that I disappeared,

00:56because what I'd do is go off to the loo and write things down.

01:05I used to write on the kitchen table.

01:08It's making sure that your work, that you have a safe place to keep it.

01:13Even if it's in the place where you keep the gin bottle.

01:15In radio, we have speech, music, sound effects.

01:27And he said, we have silence.

01:29And he said, listen to the silences, Fiona.

01:38Listen to the silences under conversations.

01:41That's where you find out what's really happening.

01:44When I got the first advance copy, I thought, oh my God.

01:52Oh my God.

01:54But it was too late.

01:56People were not used to women talking frankly about their lives,

02:00about their emotions, and this is what I had done.

02:04It wasn't so much a matter of trying to shock people.

02:09It was feeling the freedom that went into my work.

02:15You couldn't take that away from me.

02:17Oh my God.

02:19Oh my God.

02:20Oh.

02:33Today's time.

02:34I'm the 1st news.

02:35This is my days giving a walk or whatever Iкjit haft.

02:37Turn it up to me.

02:39There they were all games and animations and artists.

02:43I guess that you know,