. . . . . "A state of siege" . "A state of siege"@en . . . . . . . . . . "Malfred Signal leaves her life of stifling gentility (as an art teacher in a South Island private girls school), and decides to live out her dream - painting alone in the remote North. One terrifying night, beset by a prowler, but confronting only her own image at every step, she relives her past. A State of Siege articulates a tense and strange poetry of life, in a social and spiritual backwater. Where the apparent uniformity and calm holds unfamiliar experience and unknown dangers."@en . . "Malfred Signal, a secondary school art teacher, travels up north after her mother's death in an attempt to start her life again."@en . . . . . . . . . . . "Foreign films"@en . "Psychological fiction"@en . "Malfred Signal, a retired schoolteacher, leaves her home town and friends and moves to an isolated area where she has bought a house. The film depicts the way in which she reacts to her new environment."@en . . . . . . . . . . "University of Canterbury. School of Fine Art." . . . .