A person holds flowers wrapped in a green palm leaf

Pili Ka Mo'o (2021) Justyn Ah Chong (Hawai’i)

InstallationPuninga Toi

Wairoa Māori Film Festival 2022

Natasha Matila-Smith, Kauri Wharewera, Rangituhia Hollis, and Layne Waerea show works on the Kahungungu marae.

CIRCUIT is proud to partner with Wairoa Māori Film Festival to screen four works by Ngāti Kahungungu artists at the 2022 festival.

Natasha Matila-Smith, Kauri Wharewera, Rangituhia Hollis, and Layne Waerea will all show works at the Toi Nuhaka Art Gallery on the Kahungungu marae.

Wairoa is the longest-running indigenous film festival of New Zealand, and takes place at several festival venues across Wairoa and Nuhaka. As well as the CIRCUIT artist works, the festival has a full programme of local and international films, entertainment, a high tea celebration, and gala events.

The festival Director Leo Koziol (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Rakaipaaka) is founder and director of the Wairoa Māori Film Festival. Leo is also CIRCUIT’s Matariki curator, and has recently commissioned a new work for Wellington public art space Masons Screen that will premiere in July 2022.

Installation details

Toi Nuhaka Art Gallery, Kahungungu marae, Nuhaka
June 2, 2022 - June 5, 2022

He ringatoi anōRelated artists

A computer-generated man looks forward with a glowing ball containing multiple things in front of him

Rangituhia Hollis

Rangituhia Hollis
Natasha plays on their phone whilst watching tv off a laptop in bed in a pink room, text overlays the image reading "I'm ready to haver my heart broken again"

Natasha Matila-Smith

Natasha Matila-Smith
A person is jogging across a grassy field in the early morning. The landscape is covered in thick fog, blurring the horizon line. We can see the red glow from sunrise. The person running appears slightly mid-air, in between steps. The dawn makes them look like a silhouette on the land. The grass is covered in dew or frost.

Layne Waerea

Layne Waerea
A fiery red image of hundreds of red glowing stars on a black background. The stars have so many layers in some parts of the image that it almost becomes a block colour.

Kauri Wharewera

Kauri Wharewera

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