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Still from Maungataketake (2020) Rebecca Hobbs and Martin Awa Clarke Langdon
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Martin Awa Clarke Langdon, Rebecca Hobbs, Qiane Matata-Sipu
Martin Awa Clarke Langdon, Rebecca Hobbs, Qiane Matata-Sipu
In this conversation artists Martin Awa Clarke Langdon, Rebecca Hobbs and Qiane Matata-Sipu discuss art, activism and mutual wellbeing for Māori and Tauiwi.
Recently added works
This Housing Thing (2021)
Flipping through family photo albums and scrolling through web footage, This Housing Thing hinges on the desire for housing security and access as a human right. Why this housing thing?
Areas A & B: Housing in New Zealand (1946–) (2015)
Documentation of a community event organised for the local residents of East View Road in Glen Innes, at which Dieneke Jansen projected the 1946 film Housing in New Zealand onto the wall of an old state house that was about to be demolished.
Erotic Geologies (trailer) (2024)
A sci-fi parable that seeks knowledge from the underground, Erotic Geologies follows protagonists Rangi and Liberté, characters inspired by both Māori mythologies surrounding the figures of Ranginui and Papatūānuku’s children, and Greek figures Deucalion and Pyrrha.
Writing & podcast
The Two-Fold Commitment: entanglements of sound and image at the play_station Film Festival
The Two-Fold Commitment: entanglements of sound and image at the play_station Film Festival
Jane Wallace excavates layers of meaning in the aural and visual registers of the six artists' films shown in the 2024 play_station Film Festival.
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Between what we see and what we know: Emily Parr’s Through the time spiral: ʻOli ʻUla
Between what we see and what we know: Emily Parr’s Through the time spiral: ʻOli ʻUla
Hana Pera Aoake explores the poetic and generative role of whakapapa—a means of creating layers—in Emily Parr's Through the time spiral: ʻOli ʻUla (2021).
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Call for proposals: CIRCUIT Cast 2025
CIRCUIT invites proposals for a podcast series featuring conversations with Aotearoa artists working in the moving image