Murray Hewitt

Weeping Waters (2008)

20 min 26 secSingle channel / Digital Video / Colour / Sound

An endurance performance commemorating the 100th anniversary of the passing of the prophet Te Whiti-o-Rongomai of Parihaka.

Credits & notes

Filmed by Matthew Watson

    In the foregorund a black crash helmet with a white feather sits in a glass case, facing an LCD monitor showing a steep sand dune

    Installation view of Weeping Waters (2008) The Physics Room Christchurch as part of Antipodal (2012)

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