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Animation Now 2011
Alan Dickson, Andreas Hykade, Atsushi Wada, Bill Plympton, Damian Nenow, Donato Sansone, Evert de Beijer, Isabel Herguera, James Cunningham, Laen Sanches, Marek Skrobecki, Steven Woloshen, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, The Netherlands, 2010, 86min
Home cinema is an oxymoron! Most of the films in this year’s Animation Now have been selected to make the most of that wonderful, vertical, silver-white wall of cinema screen.
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Between Worlds
Philip Dadson, New Zealand, 2011, 10min
An upside down camera explores an enchanting world hidden in plain sight.
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Brother Number One
Annie Goldson, New Zealand, 2011, 97min
The power to forgive or be forgiven is not easily granted, but the desire for it is everywhere in this haunting, hopeful film.
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Daytime Tiger
Costa Botes, New Zealand, 2011, 92min
Costa Botes’ portrait of New Zealand writer Michael Morrissey is indeed a tiger-ride – an up-close encounter with an extremely intelligent man in the grip of bipolar disorder.
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Go the Dogs
Jackie Van Beek, New Zealand, 2011, 15min
A wandering bulldog leads a young autistic teenager on a strange adventure to an abandoned farmhouse and a runaway boy.
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Homegrown: Drama
Jamie Lawrence, Kirsten Green, Kylie J. Plunkett, Luke Savage, Michelle Savill, Regan Hall, New Zealand, 2011, 83min
This year’s crop of short digital dramas has screened in a number of international film festivals, showing the depth of local talent.
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Homegrown: Flights of Fantasy
Damon Keen, Gavin Hipkins, Kirk Hendry, Mardo El-Noor, Maria-Elena Doyle, Patrick Gillies, Paul Kim, SJ Ramir, New Zealand, 2011, 68min
MIC Toi Rerehiko presents a diverse and eclectic programme of videos that defy genre and experiment with technique and storytelling while evoking otherworldly experiences.
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Homegrown: Works on Film
Alan Dickson, Jane Shearer, Peter McCully, Sam Holst, Stephen Kang, Tammy Davis, New Zealand, 2011, 75min
MIC Toi Rerehiko presents the 2011 Homegrown programme ofNew Zealand’s finest new short films. This selection includes six original films funded by the New Zealand Film Commission.
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Illustrious Energy
Leon Narbey, New Zealand, 1988, 101min
Best known, as a cinematographer, for the striking beauty of such diverse visions of New Zealand life as Whale Rider, Desperate Remedies and The Price of Milk, Leon Narbey has recently supervised this superb digital restoration of the highly regarded but little seen feature he directed in 1987.
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Koro's Medal
James Barr, New Zealand, 2011, 14min
Little Billy must rescue his koro's war medal from a pair of bungling criminals. A rollicking adventure for kids of all ages.
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Love Story
Florian Habicht, New Zealand, 2010, 91min
When Auckland filmmaker Florian Habicht took up the Arts Foundation’s Harriet Friedlander Residency in New York in late 2009, he was under no obligation to do a jot of work, let alone return with the opening night movie for Auckland’s 2011 Film Festival.
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Mana Waka
Merata Mita, New Zealand, 1937, 85min
Mana Waka under the direction of Merata Mita becomes the great gift envisaged by Te Puea Hērangi. Mana Waka is a powerful, beautiful and intensely aspiring film, a monument to hope.
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Michael Smither: Into Perspective
Tony Hiles, New Zealand, 2011, 55min
Painter and composer Michael Smither is a lucid and engaging commentator on his own work and life in the third of a series of short documentaries about him by filmmaker Tony Hiles.
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Moving
Park Kiyong, Korea, New Zealand, 2011, 91min
Staring into the red zone from the periphery, filmmaker Park Kiyong asks Korea and the rest of the world to spend a moment contemplating what Christchurch wakes up to every day.
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Rumble & Bang
Jeff Smith, Simon Ogston, New Zealand, 2011, 60min
A necessary unearthing of an essential episode in Kiwi music history, Rumble & Bangreintroduces Chants R&B, a short-lived garage rock combo that thrived in 60s Christchurch.
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Stori Tumbuna: Ancestors’ Tales
Paul Wolffram, New Zealand, 2011, 83min
Both a fascinating look at the lives and culture of a remote and isolated people and a surprising jungle adventure, Stori Tumbuna brings the customs and mythologies of the Lak people of the New Guinea islands to vivid life.
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Strawberries with the Führer
Amy O’Connor, New Zealand, 2011, 30min
German New Zealander Helga Tiscenko talks to filmmaker Amy O’Connor about the privileges and subsequent travails of growing up the daughter of an intelligent, loving father who happened to be a Nazi general.
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The Artists Cinema
Akram Zaatari, Alex Monteith, Amar Kanwar, Aurelien Froment, Deimantas Narkevicius, Gray Nicol, Keren Cytter, Philip Dadson, Rosalind Nashashibi, Sean Grattan, Egypt, Germany, India, Lebanon, Lithuania, New Zealand, USA, 2010, 65min
Ten short films commissioned to bring visual artists’ work into cinemas in subversive and playful ways.
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The Temptation of Rossano Fan
Richard Riddiford, New Zealand, 2011, 58min
Rossano Fan had the lofty ambition to be a world famous architect, but fetched up instead in a market garden in Levin. Richard Riddiford’s documentary takes us deep into the frenetic mind of an idiosyncratic nonconformist who treads a tricky line between delusion and brilliance.
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View from Olympus
Geoffrey Cawthorn, New Zealand, 2010, 75min
Like many of New Zealand’s best artists, Wellington composer John Psathas and his viscerally rhythmic work may well be better known overseas than locally, something that Geoffrey Cawthorn’s documentary is obviously hoping to change.
