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Remembering Martin Rumsby
Remembering Martin Rumsby
Martin Rumsby has passed. We remember the pioneering film-maker, writer, programmer and champion of New Zealand experimental film.

Overlap and Unfurl
Overlap and Unfurl
Māori Moving Image ki Te Puna o Waiwhetū, the latest chapter in the Māori Moving Image exhibition series, is sensitive to the mauri of materials and place.

This side or that side, or almost. Standing by
This side or that side, or almost. Standing by
This side or that side, or almost. Standing by is an online exhibition of three video works by Richard Orjis, Emily Parr, and Janaína Moraes, accompanied by an essay by Alys Longley.

24 Hours Tāmaki: 2022 Edition
24 Hours Tāmaki: 2022 Edition
Dangerous dating, ESP, and community video: a quick-fire round up of moving image activity around Auckland's galleries.
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Otherwise-image-worlds
Otherwise-image-worlds
Curator Tendai Mutambu talks to Sorawit Songsataya and Ary Jansen about their works in the group exhibition Otherwise-image-worlds

An Indifferent World
An Indifferent World
Alicia Frankovich’s Atlas of Anti-Taxonomies at the Christchurch Art Gallery picks apart the desire to categorise, classify, and impose order on the natural world.

We're All Walking Around with Disorganised Films in our Pockets
We're All Walking Around with Disorganised Films in our Pockets
Mark Williams talks to filmmaker Martin Sagadin about their formative film influences and the two films now streaming on CIRCUIT, The Short Trilogy of Peace and Oko na Roki.

3 New Works in a Year of Protest and Pandemic
3 New Works in a Year of Protest and Pandemic
Louie Zalk-Neale, Gabriel White, and Jamie Berry showed new work on Masons Screen in Wellington's CBD while people protested against the vaccine mandates, and Aotearoa tipped in and out of lockdowns.

Sione Faletau
Sione Faletau
Sound is not static, it moves in waves and into the flickering, morphing kupesi patterns of Sione Faletau's work.

Sandy Gibbs
Sandy Gibbs
Can failure be generative? How is the athletic strength of women depicted and interpreted? What happens when we restage events from the past?

Those who have never dived so, do not know the sea
Those who have never dived so, do not know the sea
The colonial villa and its attendant myths of empire are collapsed by George Watson in her exhibition of new video and sculpture at Te Uru, Kōtiro, Emepaea.

Mauri and the Spirit of Art in Te Wai Pounamu
Mauri and the Spirit of Art in Te Wai Pounamu
Kai Tāhu collaborate with the Dunedin Public Art Gallery on three exhibitions Hurahia Ana Kā Whetu: Unveiling the Stars, He Reka Te Kūmara, and Paemanu: Tauraka Toi—A Landing Place, in "one epic and epochal mahi toi responding to mana whenua".

Remco De Blaaij, Ex-post and ARTSPACE
Remco De Blaaij, Ex-post and ARTSPACE
Outgoing Artspace Aotearoa director Remco de Blaaij discusses his final curatorial project at the gallery, Ex-post.

Gabriel White: Requiem for a City
Gabriel White: Requiem for a City
In this conversation with Matthew Wood, Gabriel White discusses his twenty-year practice of making films which use the city as material; parallels between his work and mythic literature; and Countdown Mountain as a requiem for Auckland.

A Conversation with Arielle Walker and Emily Parr
A Conversation with Arielle Walker and Emily Parr
Parr and Walker explore the history of settler and Indigenous relations in Aoteroa and expand the metaphor of whatu (weaving)—through relationships, time, whenua, objects, and images.

An Exercise in Vital Materialism, Rage-as-Orgasm, and Spirited Disillusionment
An Exercise in Vital Materialism, Rage-as-Orgasm, and Spirited Disillusionment
Samuel Te Kani reviews Artspace Aotearoa's annual new artists show, CRUEL OPTIMISM.

The Year in Art
The Year in Art
What was 2021? Host Robbie Handcock discusses a most unusual year of art and moving image with guests Abby Cunnane, Sophie Davis, and Nigel Borell.

A Trio of Animation
A Trio of Animation
Three regular contributors to CIRCUIT, Tessa Laird, Simon Palenski, and Becky Hemus, select an animated work from CIRCUIT's catalogue and share their thoughts about it. Featuring works by Brit Bunkley, Jill Kennedy, and Jae Hoon Lee.

Bridget Reweti's Illustrated Shards
Bridget Reweti's Illustrated Shards
The exhibition Pōkai Whenua, Pōkai Moana at the Hocken Gallery showed new lens-based work created during Bridget Reweti's time as the Frances Hodgkins Fellow in Ōtepoti.