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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Patu! (NZ Feature)

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Where:	The Film Archive, Wellington
Time:	7:00pm
Rating:	PG
Ticket price:	$8 / $6

The most controversial, and the most contested, event in recent New Zealand history was the 1981 South African rugby tour. Half the country was opposed to the tour, the establishment was determined the tour would go ahead, and the result was a country divided against itself almost to the point of civil war. This incredible documentary shows what happened.

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