I Still Call It Home

I Still Call It Home is a genre implosion of melodramatic horror and Brechtian didacticism It takes place inside a haunted house and a haunted society we have a dark history and its bubbling up on our skin In the words of Tom Cruise characters scream I Want the Truth but as the teacher tells us truth is ideologically malleable There is something in the house and that house is Australia Language can grant us liberty when a past wrong is admitted but language can also confine and restrict us I Still Call It Home wrestles with these contradictions in its freewheeling exploration of the policing of bodies through language and denial