Actor Stephen Bain and his minia­ture house

This Fri­day and Sat­ur­day night, film mak­er Julie Hill (who’s name you may recog­nise from her work at Radio New Zealand and on Frontseat ) is screen­ing the pre­miere of her doc­u­men­tary, Baby where are the fine things you promised me? at the Film Archive.

The doco fol­lows local actor Stephen Bain and his protest at being evict­ed to make way for the Welling­ton bypass. His solu­tion was to build a house of his own he could afford — large enough for one human, a minia­ture piano and a small stove for mak­ing cups of tea. He then took it around the world.

The results, shot in Tas­ma­nia, Wana­ka, Hobart and at a street art fes­ti­val in Brit­tany, France, at shop­ping malls, arcades and busy city streets, are well worth a look.