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Wellington Underground Film Festival

Wednesday, 13 March 2013, 12:25 pm | The Film Archive

Listing details: Wellington Underground Film Festival screenings When: Different programmes of recent underground films will screen 7pm Thurs, 7.30 pm Fri, and 7pm Sat, March 21 - 23. “A Historical Showcase of New Zealand Experimental Film: 1933 ... More >>

Screening, Q&A - Stori Tumbuna: Ancestors’ Tales

Thursday, 7 March 2013, 3:38 pm | The Film Archive

Listing details: Stori Tumbuna (2011) film screening When: 7pm, Wed through Sat, 13 - 16 March. Friday screening includes Q&A with the director after the film. Where: The New Zealand Film Archive, 84 Taranaki St, Wellington Ticket price: $8 ... More >>

Berlinale Shorts Go Exterior

Tuesday, 26 February 2013, 4:30 pm | The Film Archive

Listing details: “Berlinale Shorts go Exterior” screening programme When: 7pm, Friday March 8 Where: The New Zealand Film Archive, 84 Taranaki St, Wellington FREE ADMISSION More >>

Reel Life in Rural New Zealand

Friday, 22 February 2013, 2:59 pm | The Film Archive

Agriculture, history and incredible inventions from the Hawke’s Bay, Tararua and Wairarapa regions will be showcased in all their cinematic glory next month, when the New Zealand Film Archive and New Zealand Historic Places Trust partner to present ... More >>

Middle Age Spread

Tuesday, 12 February 2013, 9:37 am | The Film Archive

The Film Archive screens John Reid’s hilarious film adaptation of Roger Hall’s play. Middle Age Spread (1979) is no mere parading of middle class morality. Wit and thoughtfulness are judiciously mixed. And there is a bonus in the excellent original ... More >>

One Plus One (Exploring the Kinsey Reports)

Thursday, 7 February 2013, 10:01 am | The Film Archive

First up in The New Zealand Film Archive’s 2013 “Treasures from the Vaults” series is the 1961 film, One Plus One (Exploring the Kinsey Reports) . The film is a fictionalised take on the research of sexologist Dr Alfred Kinsey. More >>

Hoea te Waka

Thursday, 31 January 2013, 9:12 am | The Film Archive

Rere Ki Uta Rere Ki Tai: The Voyage (1988) screens alongside Waka: The Awakening Dream (1990). The films, which depict monumental waka voyages, look back at some of the momentous celebrations of Māori self-determination of the last century and ... More >>

Last Dogs of Winter

Monday, 14 January 2013, 5:23 pm | The Film Archive

A film about wildlife... and one wild life. New Zealand filmmaker Costa Botes’ The Last Dogs of Winter (2011) tells the story of Canadian dog handler Brian Ladoon’s struggle to preserve the Canadian Eskimo dog, or Qimmiq, the rarest registered breed ... More >>

Film Archive seeks 1980s games fans

Wednesday, 12 December 2012, 12:44 pm | The Film Archive

Do you remember playing Space Invaders or Galaga down at the fish and chip shop on Friday nights? The Film Archive is collaborating with Flinders University of South Australia on their “Play It Again” project, which aims to remember and preserve ... More >>

Filmland Neuseeland

Wednesday, 28 November 2012, 5:35 pm | The Film Archive

The “Filmland Neuseeland” programme was presented at the Deutsches Filmmuseum in Frankfurt this October, as part of the cultural activities accompanying New Zealand’s Guest of Honour role at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Now the Film Archive would like ... More >>

"Filmland Neuseeland" at the Film Archive

Wednesday, 28 November 2012, 5:29 pm | The Film Archive

The “Filmland Neuseeland” programme was presented at the Deutsches Filmmuseum in Frankfurt this October, as part of the cultural activities accompanying New Zealand’s Guest of Honour role at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Now the Film Archive would like ... More >>

Happy 70th Birthday Jimi Hendrix

Monday, 26 November 2012, 10:59 am | The Film Archive

Listing details: “ Happy 70th Birthday Jimi Hendrix! ” film screening. When: Wed 28, Thurs 29, Fri 30 Nov (with 60s costume evening) & Sat 1 Dec Where: The Film Archive, Wellington Time: 7pm Programme running time: 72 mins Ticket price: ... More >>

Web Premiere of Hitchcock’s the White Shadow

Friday, 16 November 2012, 9:39 am | The Film Archive

Web Premiere of Hitchcock’s the White Shadow Earliest surviving feature credited to the filmmaker More >>

Expedition to the Great White Continent

Wednesday, 14 November 2012, 10:24 am | The Film Archive

Sir Edmund Hillary features in this film programme centring on the 1956-1957 Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition. The films depict various stages of the journey - beginning with pre-expedition training of men and dogs in the Southern Alps, followed by the ... More >>

Spills And Thrills

Friday, 2 November 2012, 10:28 am | The Film Archive

The Film Archive are celebrating the Invercargill launch of their medianet network by holding a special free screening of a selection of films, which show the hijinks of life in Southland between 1915 and 1973. More >>

Spills And Thrills From Highlander Milk to Burt Munro

Wednesday, 31 October 2012, 3:41 pm | The Film Archive

Listing details: - Official launch of medianet, Thursday 8 November 5pm, Invercargill Public Library. - “Spills and Thrills” film screening, Thursday 8 November 6.30pm, Centrestage Theatre, 33 Don St. - Interactive session on medianet, Friday 9 November ... More >>

Chronicling New Zealand’s Love Affair With Film

Friday, 2 September 2011, 2:12 pm | The Film Archive

New Zealand Film: An Illustrated History , edited by Diane Pivac, Frank Stark and Lawrence McDonald and published by Te Papa Press, has been on sale since July 1, and is now supported with an online education resource, developed by Jakki Galloway ... More >>

New Zealand memory preserved for all time

Tuesday, 28 June 2011, 10:15 am | The Film Archive

New Zealand is now part of the international community working to promote the importance of documentary heritage through the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. More >>

Our love affair with movies film by film, page by page

Friday, 24 June 2011, 12:19 pm | The Film Archive

Aotearoa has always had a soft spot for the silver screen. Moving pictures were first screened here in 1896 to a curious and captivated audience and we’ve loved watching them, and making them, ever since. More >>

Film Archive's media vault May 27

Friday, 27 May 2011, 12:27 pm | The Film Archive

It's been a good May for the Archive with some good houses in for the New Zealand Music Month screenings of TrinityRoots: Music is Choice and Costa Botes' Kathmandu Blues , as well as some robust and rather contentious discussions with our Talk/Show ... More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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