DIRECTOR: Merata Mita
PRODUCERS: Merata Mita, Lisa Bidois Owen
PRODUCTION CO: Paradise Films
SCREENPLAY: Merata Mita
PHOTOGRAPHY: Kerry Brown
EDITOR: Rongotai Lomas
MUSIC: Hirini Melbourne

FESTIVALS: Sundance

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REVIEWS

“The film, Hotere, is rooted in the awareness and earthy wisdom of Ralph Hotere.

“Ralph Hotere has confronted us with all manner of texture and material, on canvas, corrugated roofing iron, glass, stainless steel, through windows, with light and darkness, No 8 fencing wire, in installations, alone and in collaboration. To many he is a visionary with his finger on the pulse. Like his art, he is a man of ambiguity, allegory, beauty and complexity. Natural and religious symbols, the contradictions between sacred and secular, dark and light, are underlying themes, which serve the prophetic and aesthetic functions of his work. It is left to us to turn the key to the door of communication in his works, on rectangular frames of celluloid, illuminated by shafts of pure light flashing through his black, and colour. The film does not view Hotere through labels. And it does not deny the spectator’s right to respond, to challenge, to accept, to reject, to plumb the depths, to become involved.”

– Merata Mita


“There are very few things I can say about my work that are better than saying nothing.”

– Ralph Hotere

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FILM SOCIETY SCREENINGS

Wellington   
Monday, 16 March, 6.00pm​

Wellington   
Monday, 16 March, 8.30pm​

​Nelson  
Wednesday, 25 March, 6.00pm​

Canterbury
Wednesday, 01 April, 7.00pm

Whanganui   
Monday, 13 April, 7.00pm

Tauranga
Wednesday, 29 April, 6.00pm

Dunedin
Wednesday, 13 May, 6.30pm

​Hamilton   
Monday, 25 May, 6.30pm​

Timaru  
Tuesday, 02 June, 6.30pm​

Palmerston North
Wednesday, 10 June, 6.00pm

Auckland   
Monday, 22 June, 6.15pm​

New Plymouth   
Wednesday, 01 July, 6.00pm​

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