The New Zealand Film Archive

Follow the links to the Film Archive's Events Calendar for up-to-the-minute programme details and screening times.

Screenings and Events Wednesday 1 to Thursday 15 July 2009.

Please note, from Friday 17 July to Sunday 2 August the Film Archive will be a venue for the New Zealand Film Festival.

To find out what we're screening check out our events calendar.
To find out what is screening at all Film Festival venues follow this link to the Film Festival website

Screenings

Wednesday 1 July, mediatheatre at 7.00pm
Four Frames: 4 Women Film makers, PG, Programme runs 85 minutes (DV)
4 Frames: Women film makers in Aotearoa (1990) is documentary about four New Zealand women film makers: Shereen Maloney, producer, director and writer of documentary and drama, Nikola Caro, a narrative film maker who later directed Whale Rider, Bronwyn Sprague, animator and artist and Julie Benjamin, film historian and documentary maker.
The docmentary will followed by short films by each of the film makers.
4 Frames screens again on 8 July
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$8 / $6

Thursday 2 July, mediatheatre at 7.00pm
Punitive Damage, NZ, 1999, 72 minutes, Exempt (35mm)
Occasional Productions
Director: Annie Goldson
Producers: Annie Goldson, Gaylene Preston
The screening will be introduced by producer Gaylene Preston
On 13 November 1991, Helen Todd received a call every parent dreads. "A well-crafted memorial to a life well-lived and a testament to the quiet courage of a mother and son. It deserves a wide audience." - The New Zealand Herald
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$8 / $6

Friday 3 July, mediatheatre at 7.00pm
Revolve, 2009, Exempt, c60 minutes (DVD)
A film by Bjorn Enga.
Revolve - the ride, the rider.
Revolve is a high definition tribute to the mountain bike and the rider. A high definition tribute to the coolest human powered adrenaline tool ever invented and a look at the riders who push these bikes to there limits. Shot on location in France, Switzerland, Germany, South Africa, Italy, Canada and the USA
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Entry by koha

Saturday 4 July, mediatheatre at 7.00pm
Rust Never Sleeps, USA, 1981, 103 minutes, Exempt (35mm)
Crest Productions
Directed by: Neil Young
With: Neil Young, Ralph Molina, Frank 'Pancho' Sampedro, Billy Talbot
Back by popular demand, the feature length documentary covering Neil Young and Crazy Horse concert performance at the Cow Palace, San Fransisco, October 22nd, 1978.
"More to the picture than meets the eye... Rock 'n' Roll will never die."
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$8 / $6

Wednesday 8 July, mediatheatre at 7.00pm
Four Frames: 4 Women Film makers, PG, programme runs 85 minutes (DV)
4 Frames: Women film makers in Aotearoa (1990) is documentary about four New Zealand women film makers: Shereen Maloney, producer, director and writer of documentary and drama, Nikola Caro, a narrative film maker who later directed Whale Rider, Bronwyn Sprague, animator and artist and Julie Benjamin, film historian and documentary maker.
The docmentary will followed by short films by each of the film makers.
$8 Public / $6 Concession
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Thursday 9 July, mediatheatre at 7.00pm
Children of the Migration, New Zealand, 2004, 78 minutes, Exempt (DV)
Director: Lala Rolls
The children of the Pacific Island families who migrated to New Zealand in the 1950s, 60s, 70s and even 80s have grown up. They have changed the cultural landscape of New Zealand. Their presence has shaped New Zealand’s identity both nationally and internationally as a Pacific Nation. This is a record of the times and trails of these migrant families.
$8 Public / $6 Concession
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Friday 10 July, mediatheatre at 7.00pm
Remembering The Rainbow Warrior
The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy, New Zealand/Australia, 1988, 95 minutes, PG (DV)
Energy source international / Golden Dolphin productions
Director: Chris Thomson
Producer: Robert Loader
With: Brad Davis, Jack Thompson, Louise Lapare, Mary Regan, Bruno Lawrence
Also featuring: Temuera Morrison, Suzanne Lee, Lorae Parry, Sarah Smuts Kennedy
In July 1985, the Greenpeace vessel 'Rainbow Warrior' was bombed by French agents, killing the crew photographer. This film recreates the events surrounding the bombing
$8 Public / $6 Concession
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Saturday 11 July, mediatheatre at 7.00pm
Back by popular demand
Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock, USA, 1992, 57 minutes, Exempt (35mm)
Re-experience The Star-Spangled Banner and more in this hourlong document of one of the greatest-ever live performances.
$8 Public / $6 Concession.
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Wednesday 15 July, mediatheatre at 7.00pm
Lands of Our Fathers - My African Legacy, New Zealand, 2005, 70 minutes, Exempt (DV)
Bushcraft Films / Gaylene Preston Productions
Producer/director: Jennifer Bush-Daumec
Executive producer: Gaylene Preston
“A white Englishwoman’s decision to become a New Zealander led to her need to know about her childhood in Rhodesia. She grew up there - she returns to the country she left 40 years earlier, Rhodesia now Zimbabwe.”
$8 Public / $6 Concession
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Exhibitions

Pelorus Trust mediagallery, Film Archive, Wellington until Saturday 1 August
Hold Still
Sound and Visual artist Rachel Shearer presents Hold Still, a video installation based on a collection of amateur films shot by New Zealand women in the 1930s.
Hold Still features the films of Ethel Garden, Violet Winstone and Lucy Mills. All three were upper middle class women, but their film making was distinctly different.
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Free admission

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