"Opening The Great Ngāruawāhia Music Festival, Joyce Coleman speaks as much for the legacy of the land and people that remain. Not interviewed in the film, as one would expect for a music doco, are the promoters, celebs who remember attending or entertainers who were on stage—in other words, the operators and actors of spectacle. It is instead the carers."
— Mark Amery, 'It gets weird out there' (2024)
The artist visits tech stores or help desks in an attempt to get the information off a computer that has given up the ghost.
The glossy interiors of cruiseship marketing videos are decontextualised by an audio interview with an performance artist worker on a cruiseship.
It gets weird out there
Mark Amery considers the role of moving image in giving voice in the work of artist Cushla Donaldson, with a focus on the 2021 film, Neighbourhood of Truth.
