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Magic Playgrounds: Historical Images of NZ Childhoods
Friday, 24 May 2013, 12:33 pm | New Zealand Film Archive
The first of a series of three moving image exhibitions curated by Tina Makereti, on the social history of childhood in Aotearoa / New Zealand, The Natural Environment – Ko te Taiao explores the relationship between children and the natural environment. More >>
Alex Porter / Len Lye Shorts - 25 may
Tuesday, 14 May 2013, 4:58 pm | New Zealand Film Archive
Three shorts by Canterbury-based filmmaker Alex Porter screen alongside three Len Lye films. Porter is the creator of Porter's Cinebooth , an individual screening device with a plush interior, currently on display in the Film Archive cafe. The ... More >>
Sound of Heimat at the Film Archive
Monday, 29 April 2013, 12:32 pm | New Zealand Film Archive
The documentary Sound of Heimat / Deutschland singt! (2012) follows charismatic kiwi saxophonist Hayden Chisholm on his journey across Germany, exploring the roots and living traditions of German folk music. Chisholm meets a range of fascinating and ... More >>
Samin Son TV
Tuesday, 2 April 2013, 4:58 pm | New Zealand Film Archive
Samin Son is a Korean-born artist, currently based in Wellington. His practice traverses different mediums - painting, installation, sound and video - with performative strategies. In Samin Son TV he reinterprets his past performance pieces as an experimental audiovisual ... More >>
Tongan Ninja at the Film Archive
Friday, 22 February 2013, 2:06 pm | New Zealand Film Archive
Coming up at the Film Archive: the cult comedy classic, Tongan Ninja (2003). He comes from the mighty Kingdom of Tonga (pop: 105,600, principal export: baby squash). He is trained in the ancient art of ninjitsu. He is, unsurprisingly, Tongan Ninja, and ... More >>
An Unkindness of Ravens - Exhibition
Monday, 4 February 2013, 11:11 am | New Zealand Film Archive
Listing details: - An Unkindness of Ravens exhibition, runs 15 Feb - 13 April 2013 (9am-5pm Mon through Fri, 4-7pm Saturdays), The Film Archive, 84 Taranaki St, Wellington, free admission. - Exhibition opens Thursday 14 Feb, 5.30pm, The Film Archive. More >>
Film: The Age of Stupid
Wednesday, 23 January 2013, 9:36 am | New Zealand Film Archive
Listing details: The Age of Stupid film screening When: 7pm Wed – Sat, Jan 30 through Feb 2 Where: The New Zealand Film Archive, 84 Taranaki St, Wellington Ticket price: $8 public / $6 concession FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Age of Stupid The Age ... More >>
Before The Hobbit: mobile movie makers show how it's done
Wednesday, 21 November 2012, 10:10 am | New Zealand Film Archive
Before The Hobbit: mobile movie makers show how it's done with a tiny camera More >>
Remade Exhibition
Thursday, 15 November 2012, 3:19 pm | New Zealand Film Archive
For the final exhibition of the New Zealand Film Archive’s 2012 Curator-at-Large series six artists have restaged existing works housed in the archive’s collection. The artists all apply a contemporary cultural lens by variously using humour, homage, ... More >>
Upcoming Screenings and Events at the Film Archive
Tuesday, 6 November 2012, 12:08 pm | New Zealand Film Archive
This week we have film makers in the house. On Wednesday Gaylene Preston introduces her classic Mr Wrong, on Friday Michael Heath presents his Edith Collier documentaries. More >>
NZFilm Archive Brings Local Films Home To Northland
Thursday, 17 November 2011, 1:40 pm | New Zealand Film Archive
Regionally themed films reach the Far North when the New Zealand Film Archive travel to present a programme of local historic material from their collections. More >>
NZ Film Archive Brings Local Films Home To Northland
Thursday, 17 November 2011, 10:35 am | New Zealand Film Archive
Regionally themed films reach the Far North when the New Zealand Film Archive travel to present a programme of local historic material from their collections. More >>
International Mobile Film Making Showcased in New Zealand
Wednesday, 16 November 2011, 12:37 pm | New Zealand Film Archive
MINA, the Mobile Innovation Network Aotearoa, is a project that explores the possibilities of interaction between people, content and the emerging mobile industry More >>
'Ngāti','Venus of the South Seas' at Brisbane Festival
Wednesday, 2 November 2011, 3:54 pm | New Zealand Film Archive
Films from the New Zealand Film Archive vaults are making the trip to Australia for the 2011 Brisbane International Film Festival; including Barry Barclay's 1987 Ngāti, produced by John O'Shea, which holds claim as the first feature made by a filmmaker ... More >>
Silent cinematic history to be seen for the first time
Tuesday, 18 October 2011, 4:07 pm | New Zealand Film Archive
Celebrating UNESCO’s World Day for Audiovisual Heritage on October 27 the New Zealand Film Archive are delighted to present John Ford’s Upstream, a comedic melodrama centering on a love triangle between a vaudeville knife-thrower, his target girl ... More >>
NZ Film Archive Honored At 2011 Pordenone Film Festival
Monday, 10 October 2011, 2:32 pm | New Zealand Film Archive
NZFA shares the Jean Mitry Award with US National Film Preservation Foundation Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, the internationally renowned festival of silent film held annually in Pordenone, Italy, has honoured the New Zealand Film Archive with the ... More >>
Typical Girls
Tuesday, 27 September 2011, 12:12 pm | New Zealand Film Archive
That’s Typical Girls according to all-girl 70s punkers The Slits , though we’re sure they’d be delighted to hear that a show of the same name presents girls (women really) who’re more likely to perform Freddie Mercury impersonations or odd stunts ... More >>
Reel Life On The West Coast
Friday, 23 September 2011, 10:41 am | New Zealand Film Archive
The West Coast will be showcased in all its cinematic glory next month when the New Zealand Film Archive and the New Zealand Historic Places Trust partner to present a programme of early 20th century films. More >>
Lost Hitchcock Feature Recovered In New Zealand
Wednesday, 3 August 2011, 4:16 pm | New Zealand Film Archive
After a world-wide search, a large part of The White Shadow (1923), thought to be the earliest surviving feature by Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1990), the celebrated master of suspense has been found in New Zealand - just in time for the filmmaker’s 112th ... More >>
The Film Archive Vault - July 11
Monday, 11 July 2011, 3:39 pm | New Zealand Film Archive
Well, consider New Zealand Film: An Illustrated History officially launched. Edited by our own Diane Pivac with Frank Stark and Lawrence McDonald, New Zealand Film: An Illustrated History is published by Te Papa Press in conjunction with the Archive's ... More >>
