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Vailahi Vailahi’s work Drone footage of Nanumea and Funafuti (2025) maps parts of Tuvalu under threat from rising seas.

Leap to the Place of Two Pools presents five new moving image works by artists who resist or relinquish ocularcentrism through multisensorial knowledge systems. With works by Kah Bee Chow, Selina Ershadi, Kite, Sonya Lacey, and James Tapsell-Kururangi.

Masons Screen is a public screen for video art in Wellington's CBD. CIRCUIT curates the screen in collaboration with the Wellington City Council.

How should our future build on our past? Join CIRCUIT Director Mark Williams and other arts practitioners for a kōrero around the works in Memory / Lapse and the role of memory in creating our individual and collective futures.

A screening of Stephanie Beth's film IN JOY (1980), followed by a conversation between the artist, Tara Parsons (Gus Fisher), and Mark Williams (CIRCUIT).

Memory / Lapse is a programme of six moving image works by artists from Aotearoa, Malaysia, and Thailand who explore the space between memory and oblivion.

Artist Joe Jowitt hosts a three-part podcast series of conversations with artists on the ways that humour can engage with contemporary social, political, and ecological challenges.

A programme of six works by contemporary Māori artists, curated by CIRCUIT’s Kaitiaki Kiriata Tanya Te Miringa Te Rorarangi Ruka.

Aotearoa artist Sean Grattan will travel from his home in Los Angeles, California, to present the premiere of his debut feature film, Policy Wonks, in association with CIRCUIT.

Join visiting curator Erin Robideaux Gleeson and artists Sonya Lacey and James Tapsell-Kururangi for a kōrero around their commissions in Leap to the Place of Two Pools, CIRCUIT's 2025 programme of Artist Cinema Commissions.

Homing Instinct is a collaborative international programme of artist commissions examining the human necessity for housing, shelter, and belonging. With new works by Kahurangiariki Smith (Aotearoa), Ari Angkasa (Australia), and Ananta Thitanat (Thailand) alongside Dieneke Jansen’s This Housing Thing (2021).

Five short films for cinema by Edith Amituanai, Martin Sagadin, Ukrit Sa-nguanhai, Pati Solomona-Tyrell, Sriwhana Spong

A programme of recent Thai artists' video, selected and presented by visiting Bangkok-based curator Mary Pansanga, screening in Ōtautahi, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington and Tāmaki Makaurau this August & September.

A conversation with artists Dieneke Jansen and Heleyni Pratley on using art to investigate the mechanics of capital and as a tool for social justice.

Antonia van Sitter's new work Mānawatia te Whenua, Mānawatia te Tangata (2024) is CIRCUIT’S fifth annual Matariki commission for Masons Screen

A selection of works by CIRCUIT artists will screen on the Auckland Live Digital Stage, Aotea Square, as part of Auckland Council's Matariki celebrations.

A three-part podcast series of conversations unfolding from Rematriation, a programme of moving image works by contemporary Māori artists, hosted by writer Emma Hislop (Kāi Tahu).

A screening programme exploring travel as a conduit to new ways of being, curated by Fred Small, CIRCUIT's Kaiāwhina Mahi Whakaputa Production Assistant. With works by Zoe Bokany, Andrew de Freitas, Nahora Ioane and Tanu Gago, Karin Hofko, Jeremy Leatinu'u, and Susu 蘇子誠.

Join artists Tia Barrett, Leala Faleseuga, Gavin Hipkins, Jae Hoon Lee, Obadiah Russon, Layne Waerea, and Gabriel White for a discussion about their commissions in Wild, Wild Life, a collection of seven new artist videos developed in response to the city of Auckland.

Wild Wild Life is a collection of seven new artist videos installed at a series of site-specific locations across the inner city of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, designed to be walked in one day. Featuring works by Tia Barrett, Leala Faleseuga, Gavin Hipkins, Jae Hoon Lee, Obadiah Russon, Layne Waerea, and Gabriel White.

A screening of 16mm film works by French-American avant-garde filmmaker, curator, and musician Maximilien Luc Proctor.

Works by Rebecca Ann Hobbs and Kate Walker will be shown in France as part of the group exhibition CORPS, curated by Marie-Pierre Bonniol

Works by Peter Wareing and Mike Heynes will screen in Mexico as part of a five-day moving image festival curated by Project Space Festival Juárez

A three-part podcast series of conversations with artists who work at the intersection of filmic language, poetry, and metaphor, hosted by Dani McIntosh.

Hiona Henare's work THEY AIN'T WOKE YET (2023) is CIRCUIT’S fourth annual Matariki commission for Masons Screen

LEGACIES | ROUTES is an exhibition and gathering taking place in Bangkok, Thailand featuring moving image artists connected with the Pacific Islands and Southeast Asia whose practices embrace a multiplicity of inheritances and decentred ways of world-faring.

FAFSWAG, CIRCUIT and Storage co-present two special screening programmes at Doc Club & Pub Cinema, Bangkok, supported by the New Zealand Embassy in Thailand.

How can animation in contemporary moving image practices be critical of the commercial demand for spectacle and efficiency?

Otherwise Worlding is a new reader on artists’ animation featuring essays, conversations, and a playthrough of an interactive game.

In conjunction with the exhibition Legacies, CIRCUIT presents a conversation with curator May Adadol Ingawanij and artist Martin Sagadin, moderated by Mark Williams.

What does a legacy taste, smell, sound, feel, or look like?

A new reader published in association with the 2022 Artist Cinema Commission programme Legacies.

A conversation with writers Tina Makereti, Gregory Kan, and Gwynneth Porter, on the dynamic possibilities for writing to respond to art beyond the essay, chaired by Thomasin Sleigh.

Five works by Aotearoa artists will screen at the 69th Oberhausen Short Film Festival in Germany.

A programme of Montréal experimental Film and Video 1991-2022 curated by Benjamin R. Taylor and presented by VISIONS (Can)

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

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

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

Thomasin Sleigh will undertake a three month writer's residency and produce a publication responding to the exhibition Legacies.

An exhibition of new moving image commissions by Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Juliet Carpenter, Tanu Gago, Ary Jansen, and Sorawit Songsataya.

An online conversation with Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley and Ary Jansen moderated by Tendai Mutambu

Recent artists' moving image work from Aotearoa exploring indigenous histories and current discourse through an array of filmic languages.

“Manu—the fantastic plastic Māori-wearing a designer Matariki frock, shares her pearls of fashion wisdom with the people of Pōneke”.

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

Nine videos originally programmed on Masons Screen 2016-22, addressing e-bikes, Matariki, reclaimed histories and more.

A series of screenings for Ukrainian children at refugee centres on the Poland / Hungary border.

Six works speaking to the present through archives, tourist souvenirs, familial legacies and pandemic histories.

An experimental new work by Laura Duffy commissioned specifically for the online context by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) + CIRCUIT.

A screening at Dunedin Public Art Gallery of Six Artists Respond to Joanna Margaret Paul.

Kauri Wharewera's work Te kahui o Matariki is the second annual Matariki commission for Masons Screen.

A new exhibition of multi-media work by Jamie Berry.

2020's Artist Cinema Commissions are five new works by Rangituhia Hollis, Ana Iti, Alex Monteith, Sione Monu, and Gary-Ross Pastrana.

A series of three film screenings that present an alternative history of Aotearoa experimental music, seen through artists' film and video.

AURA Festival of Moving Images 2020 was presented by CIRCUIT in association with Pātaka Art + Museum, Porirua.

A curated selection of recent artists' film and video from Aotearoa, shown at the Remai Modern in Saskatoon.

A programme of works that CIRCUIT was invited to curate for the EXPERIMENT 120 festival of films for children in Nantes, France.

Nau mai, haere mai to Israel Randell, our 2020 Mana Moana Resident.

CIRCUIT and the Wellington City Council present Kōhatu Tipua, a new work by Tanya Te Miringa Te Rorarangi Ruka.

CIRCUIT artists at the Rotterdam International Film Festival.

Mike Heynes, Max Fleury, Anna Brimer, and Pippy McClenaghan show new work that reuses cast-offs and found materials.

A screening of .TV, described in Artforum as “a deadly serious but wittily poised prophecy of environmental oblivion."

Seven artist videos examining the pitfalls of trust. As confidence in political systems plummets worldwide, what alternative belief systems might we choose to explore?