Toi Whakaari film project Quarters at NZIFF
A Toi Whakaari Design Students’ film project Quarters is at this year’s New Zealand International Film Festival (Wellington).
Quarters is a set of four evocative short films made by students in their last year of Design at Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School. The film project was funded through the School’s pitched project scheme, which supports independent collaborative work made in a student's final year. Jessica Sanderson, Rowan Pierce, Ian Hammond and Richard Larsen all graduated in 2009.
Quarters is a compendium of abstract, dream-like short films that capture diversity in Kiwi experience and challenge familiar concepts of national identity. Quarters is a four-part collaboration amongst four directors/designers who all come from a background of live performance as Design students at Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School.
Jessica Sanderson’s Our House reanimates the latent memories of a family home that is being left for the last time. Rowan Pierce’s Bethankit focuses on the traditions and rituals of Scottish culture: through distance and time these practices take on arcane, even surreal, qualities. The Depth of Place by Ian Hammond unearths faintly grasped images of childhood, while memories of a distant past become tangible in Richard Larsen’s On the Shore of a Frozen Sea.
Also screening on this programme is Alyx Duncan’s Appetite, which reimagines the mythic creation of New Zealand in a bustling sushi bar.
Directors/Producers/Screenplay/Editors: Jessica Sanderson, Rowan Pierce, Ian Hammond, Richard Larsen
Photography: Matt Henley, Laura Honey, Richard Larsen, Rowan Pierce
Sound: Computer Blu, George Duncan, Richard Larsen, Rowan Pierce
Music: Hamish Lang, Seth Frightening
With: Aroha White, Steve Tohu Carter, Thomas Alfred Bradley, Beverley Cowdrey, Kate Hammond, Ted Northcott, Murray Robinson, Quintin Johnson...
SCREENING DATES
22 & 29 July 1.30pm at the City Gallery Cinema, Wellington.
Tickets can be booked through Ticketek or from the City Gallery Cinema on the day of the screening.
More information at the New Zealand International Film Festival website.
