Remade (Mediagallery Exhibition)

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Where:	The Film Archive, Wellington
Time:	4:00pm
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 humour, homage, and critique to reinterpret and recontextualise pre-existing materials. Curators Jenny Gillam and Eugene Hansen have asked each artist to choose a title from the Film Archive’s collection and create their own new versions.

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The Last Dogs of Winter (Documentary)

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Where:	The Film Archive, Wellington
Time:	7:00pm
Ticket price:	$10 Public $8 Concession

A film about wildlife... and one wild life. New Zealand filmmaker Costa Botes’ The Last Dogs of Winter tells the story of Canadian dog handler Brian Ladoon’s struggle to preserve the Canadian Eskimo dog, or Qimmiq, the rarest registered breed of dog in the world. The film received standing ovations at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2011.

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