The New Zealand Film Archive

Screenings and events Wednesday 2 to Wednesday 9 July, 2008

Follow the links to the Film Archive's Events Calendar for up-to-the-minute programme details and screening times.

Wednesday 2 July, mediatheatre at 7.00pm
Rain, NZ, 2001, M, 92 minutes
Director/screenplay: Christine Jeffs
From the novella by Kirsty Gunn
With: Alicia Fulford-Wierzbicki, Sarah Peirse, Marton Csokas
Rain is in the great New Zealand tradition of stories (The Doll's House, The God Boy) where a child or young adolescent begins to penetrate messy adult realities.
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Tickets: $8 Public ($6 concession)

Thursday 3 July, mediagallery at 7.00pm
Romantic New Zealand: The Land of ‘The Long White Cloud’, NZ, 1934, Exempt, 44 minutes
A Filmcraft Sound Production, produced with the co-operation of the NZ Government and Tru-Colour Films Limited
An ambitious Filmcraft production, doubly so as it was made during the period when Filmcraft’s financial situation was at is most parlous in the early 30s Depression years. Primarily assembled from existing negative material from earlier productions but with the addition of two Tru-colour sequences: first at Franz Josef, the Southern Alps, Westland & the West Coast; second at Whakarewarewa with “Maori at work and play.”
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Entry by koha

Friday 4 & Saturday 5 July, mediatheatre at 7.00pm
Whatu Maori, NZ, 1921-1978, Exempt, programme runs 70 minutes
A collection of archival footage from as early as 1921 (James McDonald's He Pito Whakaatu I Te Noho A Te Maori I Te Awa O Whanganui/Scenes of Maori Life on the Whanganui River) demonstrating the traditional methods and the art of weaving. Programme also includes the late Barry Barclay’s 1978 Aku Mahi Whatu Maori/My Art of Maori Weaving. Celebrating Matariki
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Entry by koha

Monday 7, Tuesday 8 & Wednesday 9 July, mediatheatre at 11.00am
Classic Cartoons for Kids, 45 minutes, G cert
Classic Cartoons for Kids includes the world’s first Mickey Mouse cartoon Steamboat Willie (1928) plus a 1933 puppet animation by New Zealand’s own Len Lye. Also on the programme is Maurice Sendak’s classic tale Where The Wild Things Are (1973). Ideal for children aged 5-12 years.
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Free admission

Wednesday 9 July, mediatheatre at 7.00pm
Once Were Warriors, NZ, 1994, RP16–contains graphic violence, 102 minutes
Director: Lee Tamahori
Screenplay: Riwia Brown, from the novel by Alan Duff
With: Rena Owen, Temuera Morrison, Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell, Cliff Curtis
“A masterpiece… The actors’ performances are great, the direction is involving and exciting, and the script impeccable. Sometimes the film feels so real you expect to be able to smell the glue in the bag, or the mince burning on the stove. Once Were Warriors deserves every accolade New Zealand society can award it. Make it the next film you see.” — NZ Listener
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Tickets: $8 Public ($6 concession)

Exhibitions

Pelorus Trust mediagallery, Film Archive, Wellington
From Friday 28 June
Bright Light
Sarah Jane Parton’s new installation dwells deliberately in the sprawling middle ground between the actual and the imagined. Bright Light combines video works, stage sets, tropical plant life and a warped, post-arctic sensibility
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