Remade (Mediagallery Exhibition)

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Where:	The Film Archive, Wellington
Time:	9:00am
Ticket price:	Free Admission

For the final exhibition of the New Zealand Film Archive’s 2012 ‘Curator At Large’ series seven artists have restaged existing works housed in The Archive’s collection. The artists all apply a contemporary cultural lens by variously using humor, homage, and critique to reinterpret and recontextualise these historic materials.

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This Fine Island (Auckland Exhibition)

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Where:	The Film Archive, Auckland
Time:	11:00am
Ticket price:	Free Admission

This Fine Island revisits Charles Darwin's journey to the Bay of Islands in New Zealand in 1835. In this filmic adaption, Darwin's nineteenth-century travel writing in The Voyage of the Beagle becomes a vehicle for present day tourisms, travel romance, and racial othering, against the backdrop of New Zealand's lush landscape.

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Happy 70th Birthday Jimi Hendrix! (Documentary)

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Where:	The Film Archive, Wellington
Time:	7:00pm
Rating:	Exempt
Ticket price:	$8 Public $6 Concession

The Film Archive celebrates rock and roll icon Jimi Hendrix’s 70th birthday, November 27th. We will be screening a documentary of Hendrix’s legendary set at Woodstock, along with a short selection of New Zealand music videos capturing the late 1960s scene here.

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