News & OpportunitiesNgā Karere me ngā Ara Mahi

CIRCUIT invites you to lend your support to our annual programmes

Gasworks London, the Jan Warburton Charitable Trust and the Office for Contemporary Art Aotearoa invite applications from early-career artists, living and working in Aotearoa, for a three-month, fully funded residency in London

Ngā mihi nui to all the artists who responded to our recent Artist Survey. Read on to learn more about the feedback we received

CIRCUIT and Tāhuhu Kōrero Toi Art History at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington invites proposals from students and emerging writers for a new series of writing commissions responding to works for Masons Screen

CIRCUIT invites proposals for a podcast series featuring conversations with Aotearoa artists working in the moving image

CIRCUIT invites artists to respond to an online survey to help us set our future direction for 2025 and beyond

Works by Kahurangiariki Smith, Suzanne Tamaki, and Russ Flatt are currently screening at FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, France, as part of Vidéo Club, a collaboration between FRAC and Te Tuhi

Moving image works by CIRCUIT artists will screen on the Kahungunu Marae in Nūhaka over 25–27 October 2024 as part of Movies at the Marae, a partnership with the Wairoa Māori Film Festival and Kahungunu Marae that celebrates the marae's 75th anniversary

Rematriation, a programme of six works by contemporary Māori artists curated by Tanya Te Miringa Te Rorarangi Ruka, will screen in partnership with Kahungunu Marae in Nūhaka and the Wairoa Māori Film Festival

Jake Kīanō Skinner (Ngāti Rangitihi, Tūhoe) and Noel Meek's commission Two Stones | Rua Kōhatu (2024) has been selected to screen in this year's BFI London Film Festival

Bangkok-based curator Mary Pansanga is visiting Aotearoa to present Space-Body Entanglement, a programme of Thai artists' video

CIRCUIT invites proposals for the next annual series of artist commissions for Masons Screen

Antonia van Sitter (Te Māhurehure, Ngāti Rangi, Ngāti Whakaue) to produce her first moving image work for CIRCUIT’s Matariki Commission 2024

Erin Robideaux Gleeson will be CIRCUIT’s Curator-at-large for 2024

A new award offered by the Len Lye Foundation will give $1,500 annually to original contributions (academic, biographical, archival or conservation) to Lye scholarship

Opening this Waitangi weekend is a programme of five works by contemporary Māori artists, curated by CIRCUIT’s Kaitiaki Kiriata Tanya Te Miringa Te Rorarangi Ruka

Legacies, CIRCUIT's 2022 programme of artist cinema commissions, will screen simultaneously at two venues in Vietnam in early 2024

Exhibitions developed by CIRCUIT are now available to loan via the Touring Exhibitions Network New Zealand Whakakitenga Tirotiro Whatunga o Aotearoa (TENNZ) 

CIRCUIT welcomes Tanya Te Miringa Te Rorarangi Ruka as the inaugural Kaitiaki Kiriata, a new role that supports a Māori curator to develop moving image projects which speak through the lens of Te Ao Māori

CIRCUIT is looking to expand its list of editorial contributors

Christopher Ulutupu's commission The Pleasures of Unbelonging (2023) opens at TAUTAI in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland on 20 October 2023

CIRCUIT invites short film proposals for an international project which examines the human necessity for housing, shelter, and belonging

CIRCUIT and Auckland Council are inviting proposals for Wild, Wild Life, a city-wide installation of six new artist moving image commissions to coincide with the 2024 Auckland Arts Festival

CIRCUIT invites proposals for the next annual series of artist commissions for Masons Screen

The inaugural Aotearoa Poetry Film Festival invites submissions until 15 August 2023

Otherwise Worlding, a new reader on artists’ animation, launches in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington and Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland with a screening of five artists' works

Due to the impacts of Cyclone Gabrielle, the 2023 Wairoa Māori Film Festival has been postponed until October

Pati Tyrell’s commission Tulouna le Lagi (2022) will screen at this year’s Whānau Mārama: New Zealand International Film Festival (NZIFF)

Leo Koziol (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Rakaipaaka) to continue as CIRCUIT’s Matariki Curator for 2023

Pati Tyrell’s film Tulouna le Lagi (2022) has been selected for competition at the 69th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen

Legacies, CIRCUIT's 2022 Artist Cinema Commissions will travel to Singapore, Portland, London, Oberhausen and Bangkok

CIRCUIT invites proposals for a CIRCUIT podcast series featuring conversations with Aotearoa artists working in the moving image.

CIRCUIT is looking for a skilled and experienced Treasurer to join the Board of our non-profit arts organisation.

CIRCUIT welcomes Fred Small as our new Production Assistant.

CIRCUIT are seeking a motivated, committed individual with a background in contemporary art and the moving image for a fixed term part-time role.

Chris Ulutupu premieres The Pleasures of Unbelonging at the Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival (UK) on 4 March 2023

Legacies, CIRCUIT's 2022 Artist Cinema Commissions is now showing at Ashburton Art Gallery

Hana Pera Aoake, Matthew Cowan and Jana Müller, Xi Li and Leala Faleseuga to make new public artworks.

Publication launch for the Legacies reader, plus artist talk with Edith Amituanai and Martin Sagadin.

Applications are now open for three commissions to make a new work for Masons Screen in the Pōneke CBD.

This weekend, 4–7 June 2022, three big exhibitions and screenings of Māori moving image are happening across Aotearoa—in Wairoa, Ōtautahi, and Te Whanganui-a-tara.

CIRCUIT is working with three curators on a range of commissions, screenings, and exhibitions in 2022, our tenth anniversary year.

Theo Macdonald chats with CIRCUIT Director Mark Williams about CIRCUIT’s ten year anniversary and website relaunch.

Watch video, read essays, listen to podcasts, and dive into the work of Aotearoa's moving image artists.

Christopher Ulutupu is the recipient of the 2022 Tagata Moana Moving Image Award.

CIRCUIT and TAUTAI are excited to announce an open call for the CIRCUIT 2022 Tagata Moana Moving Image Award.

We are calling for proposals for Masons Screen, a public screen for video work in Pōneke.

An opportunity for Massey Fine Arts students to attend and discuss the AURA Symposium.

Annie Bradley, Theo MacDonald, and Layne Waerea will make new works for Masons Screen.

David Teh, Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore, is CIRCUIT's 2020–21 Curator-at-large.

Serena Bentley, Curator at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, is CIRCUIT's 2019 Curator-at-large.

Dr Mercedes Vicente is CIRCUIT's 2017 Curator-at-large.

Priscilla Howe is CIRCUIT's 2017 Curatorial Intern.

The CIRCUIT Critical Forum is a monthly discussion group for artists who work with the moving image.