Thinking through Morgan Godfery's 2017 personal essay I saw the mountain erupt: A Kawerau childhood, this film considers the deep histories of maunga, geology and awa through the resilience of the local tuna (eels).
The film is backgrounded through the town of Kawerau's history of forestry and milling, the logging seen from the historical perspective of Colonial occupation, in which new settler homes made of timber now sit on top of Māori pā sites.
A poetic meditation on the self, love, learning and pain is interwoven through collaged landscapes and scenes from Michelangelo Antonioni’s Red Desert (1964).
A reflection on the poem 'E Tu Papatūānuku' by Keri Hulme, te tamaiti, te ao considers deep time and the ways in which a new child is linked to ancestral knowledge, whenua and pūrakau carried down through generations.
Sites of Connection: Hana Pera Aoake
"I will not be afraid despite the fear tumbling through my body" — Hana Pera Aoake (Ngāti Hinerangi, Ngāti Mahuta, Ngāti Haua, Tainui/Waikato, Ngāti Waewae, Waitaha, Kāi Tahu) speaks with Dani McIntosh for the CIRCUIT Cast series Sites of Connection.
