Blogs & Talks

Lye's Waka into Celluloid: Tusalava (1929)

Film in the Colony

Hosted by Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision, Wellington and The Centre for Research on Colonial Culture, University of Otago

(July 2017).

This symposium invites papers that investigate the cross-cultural processes of film production in the colonial context. We welcome contributions from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds, such as film studies, history, Māori and /or indigenous studies, anthropology, archives, screen industries and communities.

Speed Pecha Kucha (March 2017)

Christchurch Critical Forum at The Physics Room for CIRCUIT Artist Film and Video Aotearoa New Zealand

Production photo for 'Fling' (2019). Director, Ed Lust views a rehearsal on location at Christ's College, Christchurch, 2015.

Ed Lust's NZFC short film production (2015)

Audio Conservator, Alexandra Porter preserves the TANZA Collection of the RNZ Sound Archives, Christchurch, 2015.

Audio Preservation: Mobile Unit Collection (2015)

LP cover for 'MAORI for BEGINNERS' (New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation, 1972).

Māori for Beginners – from the archives (2017)

Onboard TSS Awatea. Photograph for 'Awatea Ship to Shore' Blog written by Alexandra Porter

TSS Awatea: Ship to Shore recordings from the archives (2015)

Octavius Francis Harwood’s first house, built in the early 1840s (under renovation). Photo by Alexandra Porter, January 2016.

A family connection found in the archives (2016)

Group photo taken following Vincent Ward's Honorary Doctorate at UC, Ilam Film School, 2014.

Vincent Ward receives Honorary Doctorate from UC (2014)

Screening & Panel Discussion: A Sense of Place Christchurch Art Gallery/Te Puna o Waiwhetū, Ōtautahi (Dec 2010) [Photograph by Jock Phillips]