This Is Not Dying is based on filmed studies of daily life around Nova Paul’s marae (tribal meeting place). Utilising three-colour separation in the printing of the film, she produces prismatic, multi-layered images where perceived reality takes a strange shift into a more unfamiliar realm.
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In the Absence of Light, Darkness Prevails
Eclectic hotpot shot in an overheated Brazil. People are oppressed, baby turtles swim out to sea and our culture decays. -
Cry When It Happens
Melancholy L.A. How a landscape is coloured by intense desire. You want to hang onto it for as long as possible, but it slips away. -
Rayning
How pure light can break through black-and-white emulsion and reach the retina. ‘Light rayns-rains-reigns across a dream of tranquility.’ -
Shutter
Shutter tracks the rising sun, the lengthening shadows and the darkening day of a total solar eclipse. -
Garden
Patterns of grasses, trees and flowers meld, accompanied by the rousing music of Japanese experimental jazz band the Samurai Jazz Quintet. -
Ouverture
Camera improvisation in Cinemascope transforms the meagre light in an old Normandy shed into an abstract kinetic light show. -
Ville Marie
The point of view of a person falling from the top of a high-rise building. Shot on Super-8 and beautifully mastered with optical printing techniques.
Film details
- Productieland
- New Zealand
- Jaar
- 2010
- Festivaleditie
- IFFR 2011
- Lengte
- 20'
- Medium/Formaat
- 16mm
