NZ Experimental Film
Whilst we are aware of a landscape tradition in New Zealand painting and music - stretching from Augustus Earle to Colin McCahon, Douglas Lilburn, and beyond we are not so attuned to the idea of landscape in film.
In Land and Sea: Landscape in New Zealand Experimental Film, film-maker and critic Martin Rumsby makes a case for a landscape tradition in local experimental film.
Featuring work by Emit Snakebeing, Richard von Sturmer, Jed Town, Peter Wareing, Martin Rumsby and others.
A filmmaker, writer, curator and exhibitor, Martin Rumsby has been a tireless advocate for experimental film for the past 30 years. He began working out of the Auckland Filmmakers' Co-operative Alternative Cinema in 1980, and subsequently established an independent film distribution service and annual national touring film programs.
In 1985 he was the recipient of an Air New Zealand/Arts Council Travel Award to North America. Rumsby purchased 35 New Zealand films and for the next ten years toured his film programs through North American media arts centres, universities and art galleries. The further he travelled the more films he bought, returning to New Zealand every three years to screen North American avant-garde films.
Reviews of Rumsby's Invisible Cinema film shows have been published in The New Zealand Listener, The Melbourne Age, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Weekly, Chicago Reader and Now, Toronto.
Land and Sea: Landscape in New Zealand Experimental Film
Wednesday April 29, 7pm
New Zealand Film Archive mediatheatre, Wellington
$8 / $6
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The Film ArchiveThe New Zealand Film Archive has three key missions: to collect,
protect and project New Zealand's moving image heritage.Having just celebrated its 30th year of a unflinching commitment to New Zealand’s film and television history, the New Zealand Film Archive is an independent charitable organisation.
Housed within the Film Archive are more than 120,000 films, videos and television programme from 1895 to the present day. Every genre of film making – feature films, documentaries, short films, home movies, newsreels, TV programmes and advertisements – can be found at the Film Archive, meaning it’s a great source of information of New Zealand’s cultural past and present, as well (of course) as a great source of entertainment.
But the Film Archive is more than just film. There is also a significant documentation collection which includes publicity materials, stills, posters, production records, props, costumes and equipment housed in Wellington.
The Film Archive draws on its rich repository from the collections for regular screenings and events in its purpose-built cinema and gallery in Wellington, with screenings also held regularly around New Zealand as part of the community access and Te Hokinga Mai programmes.
The Archive has research libraries in Wellington and Auckland available at no cost to the public, with staff on hand to assist.
And from Wellington, the Film Archive is meeting the interests of New Zealanders from all corners of the country through its Medianet initiative, which is a network of digital access sites in art galleries and museums across New Zealand with more signing up each year.
