The Shed

I’ve handed in a 10,000 word essay and have nearly finished my Honours degree. Yay! That’s why I haven’t updated this blog in a while.

I’ve been volunteering at the NZOnScreen shed on the Wellington Waterfront. It’s been awesome. The shed is there until the end of the Rugby World Cup, so only one more week. There’s a shed in Auckland, and a caravan travelling around the South Island. There’s an interactive wall with clips from the website, and short films playing. I’ve been able to watch some of the short films. So I’m going to share with you some of my favourites. (You can see all of these and more at nzonscreen.com).

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HARMLESS is now online

I’ve heard back from the last Film Festival that I entered. And I am proud to announce that Harmless is now online and is able to be viewed.

Tragedia screening

The One Minute Movie Massive screening is Friday 23 September, 1pm-2pm, in the main theatre of 77FT (Fairlie Terrace, Kelburn). This is the competition that the Victoria University Film Department ran, in its second year. It is also the competition for which I made Tragedia.

Family, friends, hangers-on are all welcome to come to the screening. I think that includes anyone. Well, anyone reading this blog who can get to the screening within 24 hours.

NZFF Day 15

My most looked forward to film of the festival. Oh yes, it’s Melancholia.

Thursday 11 August

Melancholia

Okay, I’m biased. I like Lars Von Trier’s films. I haven’t seen most of them, but I intend to. I mean, the man bought me one of my favourite films of all time, Dogville. When I watched Antichrist, I decided, whilst beautifully shot, I would not watch it again (and I love horror films, I like gorno, I love being challenged and shown disturbing stuff in the cinema). I couldn’t work out whether Antichrist was pro-misogyny, anti-misogyny, or just presenting misogyny (actually, it definitely wasn’t anti-misogyny). With that in mind, I was hoping that Melancholia would be more Dogville than Antichrist.

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TRAGEDIA

On Saturday, I shot a one-minute short film that I wrote, about a Sad Clown (played by Floyd Norman). You can see photos and details on the piece on my Film page.

Once the film has been screened in competition, I’ll upload it to vimeo and will embed it for all to see.

New Business of Content Panel Discussion

I went to the New Business of Content Panel Discussion that Film Wellington organised at the Film Archive last week. It was for movers and shakers in the screen industry to get together and ‘explore the relationship between corporations and local content producers and the potential opportunities of such relationships.’

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NZFF Day 12

Tuesday 09 August

Homegrown: Flights of Fantasy

I made notes. I wrote down which films were played and which I enjoyed and other thoughts. But then, I can’t remember where I put that paper, so here’s what I thought on some of the films.

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Bellydance Classes – Kelburn

The next round of Bellydance classes in Kelburn starts on Wednesday 24 August.

The class will be catered to the level that students are at. Beginners are welcome.

This 6 week block will be introducing Middle Eastern Rhythms, improvisation, isolations and layering. For Intermediate/Advanced students, we will be working on solo techniques and introducing floorwork.

More details below…

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NZFF Day 11

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Monday 08 August

Metropolis

The film was better than I remembered; it was amazing seeing it on the big screen. This restoration print included never seen before footage, found in Buenos Aires. The soundtrack was the original from 1927. Hey, that’s what I’m interested in. The soundtrack included references to La Marseillaise and Symphonie Fantastique (I wonder how the 1984 re-release soundtrack would have worked. Y’know, with Queen, Pat Benatar, and Bonnie Tyler. Ha!).

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Films and Study and Hafla

As well as writing up my blog posts from the last week of the film festival, here’s what I’m up to.

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