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Soup & A Seat 2013
Tuesday, 30 July 2013, 11:50 am | The Film Archive
The New Zealand Film Archive will soon be launching their 2013 Soup & A Seat series. This is cinema condensed to fit into your lunchbreak! Every Friday at 12:15pm, from 16 August until 27 September, come into the Archive for homemade soup and a ... More >>
60 Years of The Royal New Zealand Ballet on Film
Tuesday, 9 July 2013, 2:37 pm | The Film Archive
The company that became the New Zealand Ballet took its first steps onstage on June 30, 1953. Sixty years on, we celebrate the company’s rich past and lively present with a series of special film screenings. More >>
Toy Love
Monday, 1 July 2013, 12:07 pm | The Film Archive
Dean O’Gorman as Ben and Marissa Stott as Emily in Toy Love (2003). Stills Collection, New Zealand Film Archive Ngā Kaitiaki O Ngā Taonga Whitiāhua More >>
The Strength of Water at the Film Archive
Tuesday, 18 June 2013, 4:39 pm | The Film Archive
The Hokianga landscape and sea in this film are haunting and stunningly filmed, but also alive in a different way than usually depicted. 10-year-old twins Kimi and Melody have a relationship with their environment that goes beyond what others can see. More >>
Experimental Flights of the Fisher Monoplane
Tuesday, 11 June 2013, 10:19 am | The Film Archive
The Film Archive commemorates the first flight of kiwi aviation pioneer Percy Fisher’s monoplane 100 years ago. On June 21 1913 Fisher successfully launched his monoplane at Hurunui-O-Rangi Flat, near Gladstone, in the Wairarapa. Join us and Fisher’s ... More >>
"This Way of Life" At The Film Archive
Wednesday, 5 June 2013, 4:48 pm | The Film Archive
Award-winning Kiwi documentary This Way of Life asks whether it is possible to go back to the land, and shows a family determined to do so. The Karena family represent a twenty first century yearning to return to a way of life closely connected to the ... More >>
Coming of Eight At The Film Archive
Wednesday, 5 June 2013, 10:59 am | The Film Archive
Where: The New Zealand Film Archive, 84 Taranaki St, Wellington Ticket price: $8 public / $6 concession FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Coming of Eight: A Smallworld Story at the Film Archive In partnership with the Goethe-Institut, the Film Archive presents ... More >>
Vigil at the Film Archive
Friday, 31 May 2013, 6:48 pm | The Film Archive
Vigil (1984) is film making at its finest and most satisfying. There are few films where the New Zealand landscape takes on the ominous and unrelenting power of the farm in Vigil. More >>
Cowboys In India
Wednesday, 29 May 2013, 11:05 am | The Film Archive
In partnership with The Film Archive, Travelling Film Southasia and the New Zealand India Research Institute present two films out of the 36 documentaries that screened in the competitive section of the 2011 Film Southasia festival in Kathmandu. Dharavi, ... More >>
The Film Archive gets Musical
Wednesday, 15 May 2013, 6:19 pm | The Film Archive
Get your groove on at The New Zealand Film Archive this May. A series of screenings and live music events happening from May 23 - 25 will feature varied types of music, from experimental sound DJing, to ‘60s garage rock, to dubstep. All events will ... More >>
For a Better Working Life: 100 Years of The PSA
Wednesday, 15 May 2013, 10:26 am | The Film Archive
New Zealand’s largest trade union, the Public Service Association (PSA), was founded in 1913. The Film Archive celebrates the organisation’s dynamic first 100 years by screening a programme of film and television footage that looks back on the union’s ... More >>
The Conquest of Everest At The Film Archive
Tuesday, 14 May 2013, 1:07 pm | The Film Archive
On 29 May 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest. The Film Archive celebrates the 60 year anniversary of their awe-inspiring achievement by screening The Conquest of Everest (1953). This is the official film record of ... More >>
May Day screening: Song of the Rivers
Wednesday, 24 April 2013, 4:41 pm | The Film Archive
We celebrate May Day (International Workers’ Day) by screening the 1954 East German documentary, Das Lied Der Ströme / Song of the Rivers . The stunning film travels along six major rivers (the Volga, the Mississippi, the Ganges, the Nile, the Amazon ... More >>
Olivia Newton-John in Funny Things Happen Down Under
Monday, 22 April 2013, 5:49 pm | The Film Archive
Catch a young Olivia Newton-John acting and singing her heart out in Funny Things Happen Down Under (1965), her first film role. This rarely screened Australia - New Zealand co-production was shot in Victoria when Newton-John was seventeen years old. More >>
The Film Archive screens Kombi Nation
Tuesday, 16 April 2013, 6:39 pm | The Film Archive
Listing details: Kombi Nation (2003) film screening When: 7pm, Friday and Saturday, 26-27 April & 3-4 May Where: The New Zealand Film Archive, 84 Taranaki St, Wellington Ticket price: $8 public / $6 concession More >>
Attitudes to the Outdoors on Film
Wednesday, 10 April 2013, 12:24 pm | The Film Archive
Listing details: Attitudes to the Outdoors on Film screening programme When: 7pm Fri 19, Sat 20 & Wed 24 April Where: The New Zealand Film Archive, 84 Taranaki St, Wellington Ticket price: $8 public / $6 concession More >>
Grant Tilly in Carry Me Back
Wednesday, 3 April 2013, 5:55 pm | The Film Archive
We remember the versatile and inimitable Grant Tilly on the first anniversary of his death. Tilly is at his comedic best in Carry Me Back (1982), in which he plays a southern bloke trying creatively to smuggle his deceased father home from Wellington. More >>
How Far Is Heaven film screening
Tuesday, 26 March 2013, 2:34 pm | The Film Archive
How Far Is Heaven (2012) is a mesmerizing documentary about the community of Jerusalem/ Hiruharama, on the Whanganui river. The film is a portrait of a village and its diverse residents. Jerusalem is depicted as place of “powerful dualities.” More >>
Short Film Ping Pong: Germany - New Zealand
Thursday, 21 March 2013, 3:09 pm | The Film Archive
Short Film Ping Pong: Germany - New Zealand showcases award-winning shorts from Germany and New Zealand, in response to each other. A New Zealand short replies to a German one and vice versa. In dialogue, the films produce illuminating insights ... More >>
Porter’s Cinebooth
Thursday, 21 March 2013, 12:32 pm | The Film Archive
Listing details: Porter’s Cinebooth , a Fine Arts film installation When: The Cinebooth will be unveiled on Monday 25 March, and will remain in the Film Archive cafe until Saturday 25 May. Where: The New Zealand Film Archive, 84 Taranaki St, ... More >>
