An image of a 16mm black and white film still, which depicts broken trees and a background of bush

Nova Paul, Rākau (2022)

SymposiumHuihuinga

The DNA of Film

A conversation with Nova Paul, Jamie Berry and Jae Hoon Lee, three artists whose recent works are born from a dynamic relationship between nature, mauri and filmic technologies

An online conversation curated and hosted by Mark Williams for the 2022 Screen Studies Association of New Zealand conference The Materiality of Screen Media.

This conversation discusses each artists individual practice, shared affinities and the following specific works;

Nova Paul's Rākau (2022) is a 16mm film of Pūriri trees. Paul created a film developer solution from foliage discarded by the trees themselves, bringing the image from negative to postive, creating a cyclical portrait of the Pūriri.

Jamie Berry’s Whakapapa Algorhythms (2021) is a montage of archival home movies, recent digital animation and a constant pulsing score which was written by sequencing the artists own DNA.

Jae Hoon Lee's Dark Matter (2022) continues his preoccupation with new technology as a vehicle to transform organic matter, presenting a series of pulsing coals, crystal and other mineral deposits.

Symposium details

https://www.ssaaanz2022.com/
November 28, 2022
  • This conversation was later re-posted as a CIRCUIT podcast

He ringatoi anōRelated artists

Jamies Berry Installation view of double-channel video work featuring black and red figure with the text “RAKAU” overlaid.

Jamie Berry

Jamie Berry
A computer manipulated birds eye view of a well used grimey keyboard which has no lettering on the key

Jae Hoon Lee

Jae Hoon Lee

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