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Nova Paul - The World Of Interiors
Monday, 19 May 2008, 2:22 pm | The Film Archive
You are invited to attend the opening of The World of Interiors, an exhibition by Nova Paul opening this Thursday 22 May at 5.30pm. Nova Paul will be at the opening and also in attendance for an artist talk Friday 23 May at 12.15pm. More >>
The Twilight Drone On At the Film Archive
Monday, 14 April 2008, 2:04 pm | The Film Archive
A film with live accompaniment by musician/video artist Johannes Contag. As Contag’s previous Sleepytime musical releases were a homage to the origins of ambient music, this current work explores the notion of the ambient film. Presented in association ... More >>
Curves And Contrasts
Tuesday, 11 March 2008, 10:18 am | The Film Archive
This week in the Pelorus Trust mediagallery we present Curves and Contrasts - the camera art of Robert Steele. There will be no opening for this exhibition but instead we invite friends of the gallery to Films in Real Time 1970-79 a special screening ... More >>
Merry Christmas 1981 - A film by Ronnie van Hout
Tuesday, 4 December 2007, 3:48 pm | The Film Archive
The final New Zealand Film Archive exhibition for the year is Ronnie van Hout's Merry Christmas 1981. Shot on colour Super 8 the film features van Hout and friends celebrating Christmas with an elaborate feast and plenty of good wishes. More >>
Experimental Musicians Seeks Any Suggestions?
Wednesday, 7 November 2007, 10:29 am | The Film Archive
Being told to “stop singing stop playing stop living” via a feedback form is something experimental musician Greg Malcolm has become quite used to while on the road. He’s bravely courted audience reactions to his music over the past ten years. More >>
30 years of Kiwi film making revisited
Friday, 5 October 2007, 1:47 pm | The Film Archive
Three decades of NZ feature film making will be celebrated at the NZ Film Archive in Wellington on 6 October with a special gala screening of Sleeping Dogs followed by a public screening on Wednesday 10 October. More >>
'Pounding Pussy'? 'Doggy Lover'?
Wednesday, 12 September 2007, 9:15 am | The Film Archive
No, we're not talking hard core porn or a survey into the dodgier side of New Zealand film….these are just two of the titles from 'Hey Student!' – the inaugural exhibition of Massey Fine Arts students' time-based film and video works at the Film Archive ... More >>
Video work with an illegal “motor-head” twist
Monday, 27 August 2007, 1:35 pm | The Film Archive
You could be forgiven for adding ‘petrol-head’ to a list of descriptors for Auckland-based experimental film artist, documentary maker and academic Alex Monteith. More >>
Edith Collier Film Returning to Cinemas
Tuesday, 14 August 2007, 11:08 am | The Film Archive
A documentary film on the life and work of Wanganui painter Edith Collier, "A Light Among Shadows," that played to sold out houses at the recent Wellington and Auckland Film Festivals will be returning for a season to the NZ Film Archive's cinema complex ... More >>
From Puppets to Pixels
Tuesday, 26 June 2007, 12:43 am | The Film Archive
From Puppets to Pixels is an interactive exhibition that transforms the age-old tradition of shadow puppetry into the digital world - to cyberspace and beyond. The exhibition runs throughout the July school holidays. More >>
Apocalyptic visions of rural New Zealand
Friday, 1 June 2007, 2:59 pm | The Film Archive
You’re hard pressed to find some time on the computer in the household of ex-New York and now Wanganui based artists Brit Bunkley and his wife Andrea Gardner. More >>
Zen and the art of poetic filmmaking
Friday, 18 May 2007, 2:29 pm | The Film Archive
While some ex-pop song writers go down in a blaze of glory (aka Phil Spector), vanish into obscurity (Scott Walker anyone?), or graduate to judging TV karaoke shows, very few can cite 10 years in a Zen Buddhist centre. More >>
Feeding honey, marmite and PVA to 35mm film
Tuesday, 24 April 2007, 10:43 am | The Film Archive
“I'm intensely attracted to colour, rhythm and movement, so I guess I’ve been massively influenced by film animator Len Lye,” laughs filmmaker Eve Gordon. “I’m sure every contemporary experimental filmmaker from New Zealand has to say that!” More >>
By Popular Demand!
Friday, 13 April 2007, 4:45 pm | The Film Archive
The New Zealand Film Archive has extended the Artist’s Film Festival until April 20. Originally scheduled to close on the 14th the shows collection of 20 video works by new New Zealand Artists has proven such a hit the Archive has chosen to extend ... More >>
Film Archive tips its hat to some of our finest
Thursday, 29 March 2007, 1:07 pm | The Film Archive
Wednesday night at the Film Archive is New Zealand Features Night. However for the next three months audiences are in for something a little different… More >>
Political Gems Repatriated
Wednesday, 21 February 2007, 2:37 pm | The Film Archive
The Film Archive has announced the return to New Zealand of two significant pieces of our film heritage. The short clips are from Fox Movietone newsreels shot in New Zealand and distributed through cinemas in New Zealand and Australia. They were discovered ... More >>
Film Archive: Content May Offend Season
Thursday, 14 September 2006, 4:46 pm | The Film Archive
On Wednesday nights in October the Film Archive presents CONTENT MAY OFFEND a series of New Zealand Features notorious for the censorship controversies they caused. More >>
Kenneth Anger's 'Icons'
Monday, 20 March 2006, 5:03 pm | The Film Archive
The New Zealand Film Archive and Alice L Hutchison are pleased to present Kenneth Anger’s ‘Icons’; a collection of still images from American underground film legend Kenneth Anger. More >>
Disasteradio and Emu Tomorrow Night
Wednesday, 2 November 2005, 5:06 pm | The Film Archive
The Film Archive presents an encore of the live music and visuals performance by electronic musicians Disasteradio and Emu More >>
Laurie Inkster: Films from the Wild West Coast
Thursday, 11 August 2005, 4:45 pm | The Film Archive
Laurie Inkster (1897-1955) was a well-known Greymouth businessman. In his youth Inkster developed a keen interest in photography and later in film. He opened a photographic studio and supply store and became an active member of The New Zealand Photographic ... More >>
