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The HUM calendar features exhibitions & events by New Zealand arts practitioners working or living abroad.
Christopher Ulutupu, The Pleasures of Unbelonging in 18th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival
Maltings Henry Travers, Berwick-upon-Tweed, UK
04 March 2023
Film premiere: A woman and children walk through a landscape wearing large velvet robes. Birds call, a river runs, and the sound of a bell radiates through deserted streets. The Pleasures of Unbelonging, filmed in Hanmer Spring, a resort town in the Canterbury region of New Zealand’s South Island, unfolds through a series of dreamlike tableaux poised at the fringes of mystery and disquiet. With reference to James Baldwin’s Stranger in a Village, and leaning gently into the heady noir of Vertigo and Twin Peaks, Christopher Ulutupu’s new work stages a drama of encounter with the white gaze.
Film premiere: A woman and children walk through a landscape wearing large velvet robes. Birds call, a river runs, and the sound of a bell radiates through deserted streets. The Pleasures of Unbelonging, filmed in Hanmer Spring, a resort town in the Canterbury region of New Zealand’s South Island, unfolds through a series of dreamlike tableaux poised at the fringes of mystery and disquiet. With reference to James Baldwin’s Stranger in a Village, and leaning gently into the heady noir of Vertigo and Twin Peaks, Christopher Ulutupu’s new work stages a drama of encounter with the white gaze.
Christopher Ulutupu, Hidden Amongst Clouds in 18th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival
Ravensdowne Barracks, Berwick-upon-Tweed, UK
03 March —
05 March 2023
Drawing on the filmmaker’s real-life experiences growing up in a large Sāmoan family in the largely Pākehā populated region of Nelson, Hidden Amongst Clouds newly imagines stories of Sāmoan mythology and questions the moral virtues that they uphold. The work embraces a 1990’s aesthetic, harking back to supernatural fantasy television series and their embedded symbolisms, reflecting Ulutupu’s ongoing interest in themes of belonging and the importance of recontextualising and reimagining narratives of colonial stereotypes.
Drawing on the filmmaker’s real-life experiences growing up in a large Sāmoan family in the largely Pākehā populated region of Nelson, Hidden Amongst Clouds newly imagines stories of Sāmoan mythology and questions the moral virtues that they uphold. The work embraces a 1990’s aesthetic, harking back to supernatural fantasy television series and their embedded symbolisms, reflecting Ulutupu’s ongoing interest in themes of belonging and the importance of recontextualising and reimagining narratives of colonial stereotypes.