Current Screenings

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Two women in historic and traditional dress walk down a rural road. Visible film still.

Rematriation

Screening

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

Rematriation
A figure is covered with sheer fabric and awash with red light against a black background

Rove

Screening
play_station · 27 March 2024

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.

Rove
A warped image of tangled tree branches

Films by Maximilien Luc Proctor

Screening
The Pyramid Club · 9 March 2024

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

Maximilien Luc Proctor
Eight vintage TV monitors are stacked in 2 x 2 configurations and displayed on black shelves with numerous wires and power cords visible. Each monitor shows a Hollywood movie studio logo.

Y la Palabra Dividió y Explotó | And the Word Divided and Exploited

Screening

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

Project Space Festival Juárez

ROUTES

Screening
August 10, 2023

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

Routes
In a messy, dimly-lit bedroom, a women lies on the bed with her back arched and feet on the pillows.

CIRCUIT at Oberhausen Short Film Festival 2023

Screening
Oberhausen Short Film Festival · 9.45pm, Friday 28 April 2023 (German time)

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

Circuit at Oberhausen 2023

EXPMTL

Screening
The Pyramid Club · March 29, 2023

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

EXPMTL

The Pleasures of Unbelonging

Screening
Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival, UK · March 3, 2023

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

The Pleasures of Unbelonging
An artist stands beside a cardboard humanoid figure, their arm on the robots shoulder as if in kinship

/drive-thru, play-thru/

Screening
August 31, 2022

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

/drive-thru, play-thru/
A close up of an Owl's hairy feet

BORDER CROSSING CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL

Screening
Refugee centres, Poland/Hungary · Various dates, April-May 2022

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

BORDER CROSSING CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL
An open phot album showing a young Dutch girl in 1909 wearing ornate and proper dress for the camera

CIRCUIT at Oberhausen Short Film Festival 2022

Screening
Oberhausen Short Film Festival · 5pm, Sunday 8 May (German time)

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

CIRCUIT at Oberhausen 2022
A grainy image of a peoney flower in the sunlight with a foggy background.

Six Artists Respond to the Poetry of Joanna Margaret Paul

Screening
Dunedin Public Art Gallery · August 6, 2021

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

Six Artists Respond to the Poetry of Joanna Margaret Paul
A femme person in a pink dress smiles whilst singing at a pākehā guy who is playing a gutair. They are standing next to each other on what feels like a stage with a plain background.

The Sound of Seeing

Screening
The Pyramid Club, Wellington · October 29, 2020 - November 12, 2020

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

The Sound of Seeing: sonic experiment in Aotearoa Artists' Film and Video 1973-2020
People play near a river or waterfall, laying near the water or swimming. The image has been made with a photographic technique called three colour separation, in which the scene is filmed three times, and each negative given a red, blue and green primary colour. These negatives are layered on top of each other, and combined into one image, which appears to show an ‘after-image’ of different movements recorded in each shot.

Tai Timu! Tai Pari! The Tide Ebbs, the Tide Flows

Screening
Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada · October 22, 2020

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

Tai timu! Tai pari! The tide ebbs, the tide flows
A digital collage of four owls sitting on a branch with multiple heads

Experiment 120 (La nature, les machines et les objets)

Screening
Nantes, France · October 10, 2020

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

Experiment 120 (La nature, les machines et les objets)
The black and white image shows three dancers leaning together with their bodies intertwined theatrically. The person in the middle wears sunglasses with large pointed studs.

CIRCUIT at Rotterdam Film Festival 2020

Screening
January 21, 2020

CIRCUIT artists at the Rotterdam International Film Festival.

CIRCUIT at Rotterdam Film Festival 2020
A digital collage of a surreal landscape with a person's face overlaid.

An Oceanic Feeling

Screening
Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery, Auckland · August 23, 2018

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

An Oceanic Feeling: Screening & Book Launch

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