Projects
Our Projects page lists installations/works produced by CIRCUIT for gallery and/or screening contexts. 'Current' indicates programmes from the previous 12 months. The 'Past' section includes CIRCUIT projects which are no longer in active distribution but may be available on request.
CIRCUIT is available for commissioning of new installation and/or screening programmes. For enquiries about CIRCUIT programming or distribution of individual works, write to Mark Williams, director(at)circuit.org.nz.
Exhibition
Laura Duffy - Spawn
December 7, 2021 to March 1, 2022
Spawn is a gift to those of us (so many of us!) who have been living through lockdowns. With the unwelcome man...
Commission
CIRCUIT Tagata Moana Moving Image Award
December 7, 2021 to January 20, 2022
CIRCUIT and TAUTAI are excited to announce an open call for the CIRCUIT 2022 Tagata Moana Moving Image Award....
Installation
Masons Screen: James R Ford
February 2, 2016 to February 1, 2022
Masons Screen is a 24 hour public screen for artists' video. Supported by Wellington City Council and programm...
Screening
Six artists respond to the poetry of Joanna Margaret Paul
January 19, 2022
Six Artists respond to the poetry of Joanna Margaret Paul is a programme of short moving image works by Nova P...
E-Book
CIRCUIT E-Book: Sovereign Pacific / Pacific Sovereigns
April 15, 2021
Download Sovereign Pacific / Pacific Sovereigns [PDF]
This 88-page CIRCUIT e-reader Sovereign Pacific / Paci...
Exhibition
CIRCUIT Artist Cinema Commissions: Sovereign Pacific / Pacif...
March 31, 2021
Sovereign Pacific / Pacific Sovereigns includes five new works for cinema by Rangituhia Hollis, Ana Iti, Alex...
Installation
CIRCUIT Matariki Commission 2021: Kauri Wharewera
July 6, 2021 to August 2, 2021
This Matariki CIRCUIT is pleased to present Te kahui o Matariki (2021) by Kauri Wharewera (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti...
Screening
Six artists respond to the poetry of Joanna Margaret Paul
August 7, 2021
CIRCUIT is excited to present a screening of six video works by New Zealand artists created in response to the...
Screening
CIRCUIT at Oberhausen Film Festival, Germany 2021
May 1, 2021 to May 31, 2021
CIRCUIT is pround to be part of Oberhausen Short Film Festival 2021, showing a progamme of recent works from A...
Exhibition
Whakapapa / Algorithms - an exhibition by Jamie Berry
March 19, 2021 to April 10, 2021
Presented by The Audio Foundation and CIRCUIT Artist Film and Video Aotearoa New Zealand, Whakapapa/Algorithms...
Podcast Series
Popular Glory: Contemporary Queerness and the Moving Image
July 29, 2020
Popular Glory is a new four-part podcast series hosted by Pōneke artist Robbie Handcock, in which he interview...
Screening
The Sound of Seeing – sonic experiment in Aotearoa Artists...
October 30, 2020 to November 13, 2020
The Sound of Seeing is a series of three film screenings which present an alternative history of Aotearoa expe...
Exhibition
Call for Proposals - Masons Screen Commissions 2021/22
June 21, 2021 to July 12, 2021
The deadline for this project has now passed. Thanks to all who applied.
CIRCUIT and Wellington City Council a...
Symposium
AURA 2020
October 23, 2020 to October 24, 2020
AURA Festival of Moving Images 2020 was presented by CIRCUIT in association with Pātaka Art + Museum, Porirua....
Interview Series
ex(CLAIM)
September 9, 2020
(ex)CLAIM is a series of four interviews with Mana Moana artists working in moving image and new media.
Interv...
Residency
Mana Moana Residency - Israel Randell
August 14, 2020
CIRCUIT and Creative New Zealand welcome Mana Moana research resident Israel Randell.
Israel Randell is a mult...
Screening
Tai timu! Tai pari! The tide ebbs, the tide flows
October 23, 2020
Tai timu! Tai pari! brings together a collection of recent artists’ film and video from Aotearoa New Zealand....
Curator-at-large
CIRCUIT Curator-at-large 2020/21: David Teh
January 1, 2020
CIRCUIT is very proud to announce our 2020/21 curator-at-large, David Teh. David is the curator of of CIRCUIT'...
Screening
Experiment 120 (La nature, les machines et les objets)
October 11, 2020
EXPERIMENT 120 is a programme of experimental films for children showing in Nantes, France this Oct/Nov. CIRCU...
Installation
CIRCUIT Matariki Commission
July 1, 2020 to July 29, 2020
Kōhatu Tipua (Supernatural Stones) is a new work by Tanya Te Miringa Te Rorarangi Ruka (Ngati Pakau, Ngapuhi)....
Commission / Installation
Masons Screen Commissions 2020/21
August 20, 2020
We are pleased to announce the recipients of three new commissions for Masons Screen; Annie Bradley, Layne Wae...
Essay Series
Adaption and adoption; absorption, refraction and duration i...
June 25, 2019 to September 25, 2019
There’s a plasticity to the arts that makes mediums entirely fluid. Surely then it’s no surprise to recognise...
Screening
CIRCUIT at Oberhausen Short FIlm Festival 2020
May 18, 2020 to May 20, 2020
CIRCUIT presents a selection of six recent works from Aotearoa at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Germany....
Screening
CIRCUIT at Rotterdam Film Festival 2020
January 22, 2020
CIRCUIT artists are well represented at the upcoming Rotterdam International Film Festival from 22 January to...
E-book
E-book: The Time of the Now
March 4, 2019
CIRCUIT is proud to present The Time of the Now e-book. 118 pages of interviews, presentations and discussion...
Screening
CIRCUIT at Oberhausen Short FIlm Festival 2020
May 18, 2020 to May 20, 2020
CIRCUIT presents a selection of six recent works from Aotearoa at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Germany....
Screening / Exhibition
Personal Space - CIRCUIT Artist Cinema Commissions 2019
October 4, 2019
What do we call ‘Home’? What are our shared foundations and values? When you think about yours what does it lo...
Exhibition
AURA Festival of Artist Moving Images
September 28, 2019 to October 5, 2019
CIRCUIT is proud to present AURA Festival of Artists Moving Images, Wellington, New Zealand, 28 Sept-5 Oct 201...
Installation
Home Movies
September 28, 2019
On Saturday 28 September, the Wellington suburb of Newtown is transformed into a pop-up gallery, with an exhib...
Symposium
From Me To You
October 5, 2019
What is the boundary between the personal and the political in artists moving image work? Where does art begin...
Essay Series
Uiuinga - conversations with four Māori Artists
May 21, 2019
Commissioned by CIRCUIT and Toi Māori Aotearoa - Māori Arts New Zealand, this four-part conversation series pr...
Screening
Renewal
June 6, 2019
On 6 June CIRCUIT will renew it's partnership with the Aperture Asia Pacific Film Festival in London to presen...
Installation
Suspended Agency - an installation by Peter Wareing
April 6, 2019 to July 21, 2019
Curated by CIRCUIT Director Mark Williams and presented by the Govett Brewster Art Gallery, Suspended Agency i...
Symposium
CIRCUIT Symposium 2018: The Time of the Now
September 15, 2018
What strategies do contemporary artists employ to test media representation of reality and the means throug...
Screening
Thick Cinema
October 28, 2018
What is the role of the body and sensorial experience in cinematic intelligibility and meaning? Curated by Mer...
Screening
Mappings: Landscape, Memory, Histories
September 29, 2018
Presented in partnership with CIRCUIT, Aperture Asia & Pacific Film Festival presents Mappings: Landscape,...
E-Book
E-book: The Thickness of Cinema
December 11, 2017
CIRCUIT is very proud to announce The Thickness of Cinema E-book. 100 pages of interviews and discussions from...
Installation / Screening
Through a Different Lens/Film Work by Joanna Margaret Paul
August 10, 2017
Through a Different Lens/Film Work by Joanna Margaret PaulCurated by Peter Todd68 minutes, Digital Video, Sile...
Screening
Six artists respond to the poetry of Joanna Margaret Paul
January 19, 2022
Six Artists respond to the poetry of Joanna Margaret Paul is a programme of short moving image works by Nova P...
Screening
I BECOME INSTRUMENT
September 15, 2018
Announcing I BECOME INSTRUMENT - the inaugural Aotearoa festival of artists sound and image - presented by CIR...
Screening
Joanna Margaret Paul: I am an open window
October 18, 2015
Taking the form of a conversation between past and present, Joanna Margaret Paul: I am an open window presents...
Installation
WUNDERSCHEIN - an installation by Guillaume Cailleau
May 10, 2019 to May 25, 2019
When and how does a piece of paper or an artwork acquire an exchange value? How is its value determined and pu...
Screening
Truth or Consequences
August 21, 2018
How can artists respond to a ‘post-truth era’ of humanitarian and ecological crisis?
Truth or Consequences is...
Curator-at-large
CIRCUIT Curator-at-large 2019: Serena Bentley
April 3, 2019 to December 31, 2019
Serena Bentley is CIRCUIT's 2019 curator-at-large. She will curate our annual programme of Artist Cinema Commi...
Symposium
The Thickness of Cinema
August 22, 2018 to August 27, 2018
What might be the role of the body and the sensorial experience in the emergence of cinematic intelligibility...
Exhibition
PULSE/REPEAT
November 30, 2017 to December 20, 2017
“I have constantly stressed the pulsative function as it were of the subconscious”- Jacques Lacan
The Pulse is...
Exhibition
Party Political Broadcast
September 19, 2017 to September 23, 2017
“The following is a party political broadcast on behalf of…”
Presented by CIRCUIT and The Physics Room, Party...
Installation
Being Space
June 22, 2017 to September 14, 2017
An installation curated by CIRCUIT Curatorial Intern Priscilla Howe. Featuring work by Robyn Jordaan, Melissa...
Installation
Who spends the time? Some practical questions concerning the...
August 22, 2017 to August 25, 2017
"If I was a Tory how would you win me over?”
In this speculative urban documentary Peter Wareing juxtaposes f...
Installation
worth your while
October 11, 2018 to November 7, 2018
Worth your while is an installation of two works by Elisabeth Pointon and Dilohana Lekamge which make room to...
Screening
Apple Pie
May 9, 2017
UK premiere of Sam Hamilton's Apple Pie screening at CLOSE-UP, London.
“If you wish to make apple pie from scr...
Installation
Arwa Alneami: Never Never Land
September 12, 2018 to September 15, 2018
Arwa Alneami is a key figure in Saudi Arabian art, exhibiting in and increasingly beyond the Kingdom. Her very...
Curatorial Internship
CIRCUIT Curatorial Intern 2017
May 23, 2017 to December 20, 2017
Priscilla Howe recently completed her Bachelor of Visual Communication Design(Hons) at Massey University where...
Installation
Leisure Week 2017
April 1, 2017 to April 7, 2017
Featuring works by Clinton Watkins, Christina Read and Layne Waerea Leisure Week infuses the NZ sublime with l...
Symposium
CIRCUIT Symposium 2016: Phantom Topologies
September 10, 2016
How do we situate ourselves in and navigate the globalized world of 2016? What constitutes proximity and dista...
Installation
To & Fro
February 8, 2016 to July 17, 2016
From real estate opportunities on Mars to someone dancing their way across a bridge in south Auckland, these w...
Installation
I want to be where I am
September 8, 2016 to September 17, 2016
I want to be where I am is an exhibition featuring recent work by Martha Atienza (Philippines), Tanya Te Mirin...
Installation
Julian Dashper: Video Works
September 9, 2016
This one-day exhibition celebrates the video work of New Zealand conceptual artist Julian Dashper (1960–2009)....
Symposium
Looking Back into the Future
August 29, 2013 to August 31, 2013
Reflecting on current local and international perspectives, how can institutions better support new models of...
Installation
St Bathans repetitions 1/2/16 - 21/3/16 (portraits de Jacque...
August 22, 2017 to August 26, 2017
The former gold mining town of St Bathans lies deep in the heart of the Maniototo in New Zealand's Otago regio...
Residency
CIRCUIT 2016 International Artist in Residence
February 16, 2016 to October 1, 2016
CIRCUIT is proud to announce it's inaugural 2016 international artist in residence Alexandre Larose (CAN).
Fol...
Symposium
A Genealogy of Moving Image Practice
August 9, 2015 to August 15, 2015
Given the interdisciplinary strands of influence that inform contemporary moving image practice, what lineages...
Screening
Merv Espina presents: Turumba & the Green Papaya Kitchen
September 7, 2016
For one night only, a screening of seminal 1981 Filipino film Turumba, by Kidlat Tahimik, introduced by vis...
Installation
temple sea feng shui
September 8, 2016 to September 9, 2016
Shot in the seaside town of Sai Kung (Hong Kong) temple sea feng shui (2016) is an installation by Josette Chi...
Screening
This is not film-making. Artists work for cinema
May 10, 2017
How does art history and practice translate across geography and time?
This is not film-making. Artists work f...
Professional Development
CIRCUIT Critical Forum
February 1, 2017 to December 1, 2017
The CIRCUIT Critical Forum is a monthly discussion group for artists who work with the moving image to talk ab...
Installation
News of the Uruguay Round
May 25, 2016 to May 29, 2016
Presented by CIRCUIT at the Auckland Art Fair, Mike Heynes’ multi-channel video installation News of the Urugu...
Residency
CIRCUIT 2016 Curator-at-large
March 11, 2016 to October 1, 2016
George Clark is an artist, curator and writer based between London and Hong Kong. He is CIRCUIT's 2016 Curator...
Exhibition
Coastline Paradox
October 21, 2016 to November 12, 2016
Coastline Paradox is a multimedia installation by Hong Kong/UK artist
Josette Chiang at Toi Pōneke Arts Centr...
Installation
brouillard - Sackville Marshwalk
August 11, 2015 to August 29, 2015
An installation by Alexandre Larose, presented by CIRCUIT Artist Film and Video Aotearoa New Zealand and The A...
Workshop
Workshop: Developing 8mm/16mm film by hand
August 9, 2015
NOTE: This workshop is now full and registrations have closed.
Montreal-based film artist Alexandre Larose le...
Symposium
Looking Back into the Future – a symposium on artist moving...
August 29, 2013 to August 31, 2013
With over 40 years of artist moving image production in New Zealand, what is the current state of local practi...
Installation
The Brain
August 14, 2015 to November 15, 2015
Curated by artist Christina Read and commissioned by CIRCUIT, The Brain is an idiosyncratic spatial and concep...
Screening
OgoGago (comes and goes)
October 10, 2015
Curated by artist Seung Yul Oh, OgoGago (English translation; 'comes and goes') features up to 10 short works...
Screening
Material Damage: Expanded Cinema by Dirk de Bruyn with Duckl...
August 14, 2015
CIRCUIT presents a live expanded cinema performance by Melbourne experimental film-maker Dirk de Bruyn, with s...
Screening
Six videos for TEZA
November 26, 2013 to December 1, 2013
6 videos programmed in response to 6 daily provocations by the festival TEZA (Transitional Economic Zone of Ao...
Screening
The First Universe
August 30, 2013 to August 30, 2015
“A house constitutes a body of images that gives mankind proofs or illusions of stability.” —Gaston Bachelard...
Screening
The Past Sure Is Tense
August 10, 2015
The rapid turnover of broadcast and digital media tells us that the lifespan of the contemporary moment is inc...
Screening
Goodnight Kiwi or; Tonights broadcast has now ended, regular...
December 20, 2014 to January 5, 2015
Before the advent of 24-hour broadcasting in 1994 the evening closedown of New Zealand state television was si...
Screening
Place Unmaking
July 21, 2015
Contemporary New Zealand film and video artists are often called on to engage in ‘place-making’ in public art...
Installation
Everyday Things
October 16, 2015 to February 1, 2016
A short programme of video works present interventions into everyday activities and materials. Featuring work...
Installation
Jim Allen's News
March 1, 2016
Jim Allen’s News is a collaboration between Jim Allen and Mark Harvey, curated by Mark Williams with the artis...
Symposium
Locating the Practice: Exhibiting Artists’ Moving Image
August 15, 2014 to August 16, 2014
Where is artists’ moving image practice best sited? How can we define and exhibit this diverse and ever-evolvi...
