| New Zealand Cinema |
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BLERTA Revisited |
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| Geoff Murphy, New Zealand 2001, DV. M adult themes |
| Bruno Lawrence’s Electric Revelation and Travelling Apparition was a changing line-up of musicians, filmmakers, lovers and hangers-on who between 1971 and 1976 toured New Zealand in a flower-powered bus. Murphy’s documentary on the group is structured to resemble one of their crazy vaudeville shows. |
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Stori Tumbuna: Ancestors' Tales |
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| Paul Wolffram, New Zealand 2011, DV |
| Research and traditional lore are neatly interlaced in this film by New Zealand ethnomusicologist Paul Wolffram, who spent two years recording the culture of the Lak people in the southern region of New Ireland, a remote island of the north coast of New Guinea. |
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The Strength of Water |
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| Armagan Ballantyne, New
Zealand 2009, DV, M violence, offensive language, sex scenes |
| The arrival of a stranger to the remote Hokianga precipitates a terrible accident and young twins Kimi and Melody must learn to live apart. “This is a stunningly assured and original debut feature. Viewers may find themselves strangers in their own land but the experience is unforgettable.” – Herald on Sunday |
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Woodenhead |
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| Florian Habicht, New Zealand 2003, DV. M sex scenes |
| A subversive musical fairy-tale, Habicht’s carnivalesque oddity follows dump hand Gert on his quest to deliver the dump owner’s beautiful mute daughter Princess Plum to her wedding. “A truly unsettling, visually inventive, stylistically thrilling and quite marvellous diamond in the rough.” – Melbourne IFF |
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The Artists Cinema |
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| New Zealand 2011, DV |
| Six short films commissioned to bring visual artists’ work into cinemas in subversive and playful ways. Curated by Mark Williams with support from Creative New Zealand. Featuring work by Alex Monteith, Sean Grattan, Gray Nicol, Phil Dadson, Sriwhana Spong and Ronnie van Hout. |
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Came a Hot Friday |
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| Ian Mune, New Zealand 1984, DV. PG coarse language |
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Utu |
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| Geoff Murphy, New Zealand 1983, 35mm. PG violence |
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at Queenstown Film Society |
