Circuit
Matthew Cowan and Jana Müller, Background Scenes (2023)
Featured screening
Slipping through the gap
A selection of films from the collection of Arsenal Filminstitut and CIRCUIT which examine the work that moving images do in framing identity, place and imagination, and the productivity of gaps.
Recently added works
Hina's Granddaughters (Documentation excerpt) (2022)
Documentation of an immersive experience of poetry, song and sound accompanied by moving images projected onto a screen of ’ahufara tapa.
First Edition, Third Hand (2019)
First Edition, Third Hand is a video from an installation which explores the idea of the cyborg in the Pacific.
Kiosk: Directors’ Commentary (2020)
A cinematic journey of homage along the Otakaro Avon River and out to sea, in memory of a defunct public art project.
Writing & podcast
Becoming an Ariki
Becoming an Ariki
"... in Ariki, the positioning of the camera is one of a mother’s gaze protecting from above" - Mauatua Fa'ara-Reynolds writes on Leilani Kake
Making Love to the Bathroom Window
Making Love to the Bathroom Window
The domestic backyard becomes a theatrical stage for investigations of queer selfhood in Latamai Katoa's THE UNDERWORLD.
Luke Willis Thompson: B42040A1A1A
Luke Willis Thompson: B42040A1A1A
"Dream into the future that you want to embody" - Orissa Keane writes on two new films by Luke Willis Thompson.
News and opportunities
Call for Proposals: Masons Screen Commissions 2026/27
CIRCUIT invites proposals for the next annual series of artist commissions for Masons Screen.