CIRCUIT is delighted to note that Jake Kīanō Skinner and Noel Meek's commission Two Stones | Rua Kōhatu (2024) has been selected to screen in this year's BFI London Film Festival. The work will show as part of 'Right in the Substance of Them a Trace of What Happened', a programme in the festival's Experimenta strand of artists' moving image, on Saturday 19 October.
In Rua Kōhatu | Two Stones, Kīanō Skinner and Noel Meek elicit a range of sounds from stones in a series of vignettes set to the backdrop of Ngā Kohatu Whakarakaraka o Tamatea Pōkai Whenua, Ōtautahi Christchurch’s Port Hills, juxtaposed with text from the poem 'Thoughts On A Sufi Proverb' by Hone Tuwhare. As the festival describes the work:
"Hands tap, tracing patterns on rocks. These mineral-rich instruments are collaborators for a sonic performance, the landscape in Aotearoa listens."
Jake Kīanō Skinner (Ngāti Rangitihi, Tūhoe) and Noel Meek (Pākehā) are both based in Ōtautahi Christchurch. Kīanō Skinner is a multi-instrumentalist who works with taonga pūoro, while Meek is a musician, composer and video artist who explores meeting points between the non-human world and te ao Māori.
Two Stones | Rua Kōhatu was commissioned by CIRCUIT and Wellington City Council for Masons Screen 2024.
