The Ungrateful Tenant brings a timeless tale of housing woe to the NZ International Film Festival

The Ungrateful Tenant brings a timeless tale of housing woe to the NZ International Film Festival

The black-and-white silent film about the struggles of renting in Auckland takes some bold creative swings but the execution falls short. The most impressive thing about New Zealand’s filmmaker Conor Bowden’s feature-length debut The Ungrateful Tenant is that it exists at all. The micro-budget, black-and-white silent film was shot over the course of four and a half years, utilising iPhone footage and using Bowden’s own flats as settings. He cast…