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The HUM calendar features exhibitions & events by New Zealand arts practitioners working or living abroad.
Edith Amituanai, Martin Sagadin, Sriwhana Spong and Pati Tyrell, 'Legacies' international tour
ADM Gallery Singapore; Stelo, Portland, USA; LUX, London; Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Germany; Storage Art Space, Bangkok
03 April —
01 October 2023
Legacies, CIRCUIT's 2022 programme of artist cinema commissions of works by Aotearoa artists Edith Amituanai, Martin Sagadin, Sriwhana Spong and Pati Tyrell, will be shown at international galleries and festivals, from Singapore to Oberhausen. Curated by CIRCUIT’s 2022/23 curator-at-large Dr May Adadol Ingawanij (Thai/UK), Legacies began with a series of prompts Ingawanij sent to the artists about the potential meaning and resonance of the term.
“Legacies are that which we carry, sometimes with pride and sometimes with shame, as the basis of social bonding, whether as things a people embodies with pride or as an enduring pain, a burden, some kind of ghost. Legacies as: the pre-modern artistic, cultural, linguistic and religious heritages of the place and land that you were born into and raised in; through to the legacies of colonisation, and the spectres of nations and nationalisms; the legacies of the modern art/film histories; the narratives and ways of knowing that shaped you, and that bring an ambivalence and a desire to undo.” - May Adadol Ingawanij
The screening details are as follows:
- ADM Gallery, Singapore (Installation, 03 April - 05 May)
- Stelo, Portland, USA (Screening, 21 April)
- LUX, London (Screening/Talk by May Ingawanij, Sriwhana Spong and CIRCUIT Director Mark Williams, 26 April)
- Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Germany (Screening, 28 April)
- Storage Art Space, Bangkok (Installation, 03 August - 01 October and Gathering/Talk, 06 August).
Legacies, CIRCUIT's 2022 programme of artist cinema commissions of works by Aotearoa artists Edith Amituanai, Martin Sagadin, Sriwhana Spong and Pati Tyrell, will be shown at international galleries and festivals, from Singapore to Oberhausen. Curated by CIRCUIT’s 2022/23 curator-at-large Dr May Adadol Ingawanij (Thai/UK), Legacies began with a series of prompts Ingawanij sent to the artists about the potential meaning and resonance of the term.
“Legacies are that which we carry, sometimes with pride and sometimes with shame, as the basis of social bonding, whether as things a people embodies with pride or as an enduring pain, a burden, some kind of ghost. Legacies as: the pre-modern artistic, cultural, linguistic and religious heritages of the place and land that you were born into and raised in; through to the legacies of colonisation, and the spectres of nations and nationalisms; the legacies of the modern art/film histories; the narratives and ways of knowing that shaped you, and that bring an ambivalence and a desire to undo.” - May Adadol Ingawanij
The screening details are as follows:
- ADM Gallery, Singapore (Installation, 03 April - 05 May)
- Stelo, Portland, USA (Screening, 21 April)
- LUX, London (Screening/Talk by May Ingawanij, Sriwhana Spong and CIRCUIT Director Mark Williams, 26 April)
- Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Germany (Screening, 28 April)
- Storage Art Space, Bangkok (Installation, 03 August - 01 October and Gathering/Talk, 06 August).
Pati Tyrell, 'Tulouna le Lagi' film screening at 69th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany
26 April —
01 May 2023
Aotearoa/Sāmoan artist Pati Tyrell's Tulouna le Lagi (2022) has been selected for the 69th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen in Germany.
The world's oldest short film competition, this film festival is a forum for experiments, unusual content and formats, and the place for cinematic discoveries, regardless of genre and production country. Every year, filmmakers from over 40 countries present themselves here with only international festival premieres being admitted to the competition. The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen appoints its own selection committee and juries for this competition, in which the traditional Grand Prize of the City of Oberhausen is awarded.
Aotearoa/Sāmoan artist Pati Tyrell's Tulouna le Lagi (2022) has been selected for the 69th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen in Germany.
The world's oldest short film competition, this film festival is a forum for experiments, unusual content and formats, and the place for cinematic discoveries, regardless of genre and production country. Every year, filmmakers from over 40 countries present themselves here with only international festival premieres being admitted to the competition. The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen appoints its own selection committee and juries for this competition, in which the traditional Grand Prize of the City of Oberhausen is awarded.
Sione Monu, Rangituhia Hollis, Stella Brennan, Natasha Matila-Smith, Neihana Gordon-Stables, Alex Plumb and Alex Monteith at Oberhausen Film Festival
International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
01 May —
31 May 2021
CIRCUIT presents a progamme of recent works from Aotearoa in the International Short Film Festival 2021, Oberhausen. CIRCUIT is presenting it's programme alongside other international distributors of artist moving image including LUX (UK), Video Data Bank (USA). You can watch the CIRCUIT and the other Distributors programmes online for 48 hours.
Meanwhile, in the international competition, Sione Monu’s 'Only Yesterday' (2020) shows as part of International Competition 1 on May 1, and Rangituhia Hollis' 'Across the Face of the Moon' (2020) screens as part of International Competition 5 on 11am, 8 May.
CIRCUIT Distributors Screening: Works
Stella Brennan, 'The Pacific Century' (2018)
The Pacific Century attempts to construct a human scale for the enduring legacy of atomic waste and of nuclear testing in the South Pacific.
Natasha Matila-Smith, 'Self-isolating in Your Heart' (2020)
The anxiety of being lonely in public and private spaces is read anew in the context of the global COVID-19 pandemic, as intimacies are reconfigured physically and digitally.” - Runway Journal
Neihana Gordon-Stables, 'I like this queer scene but i've slept with both of them' (2017)
'I like this queer scene...' suggests the cinematic tropes of the coming of age movie, only to abruptly end after 90 seconds, it's truncated length analogous to the limits of the "small town queer scene" it depicts.
Alex Plumb, 'The Luring' (2017)
A visually-driven, psychological snapshot into the lives of three different people and what they desire. Set in a seemingly familiar yet dystopian present, the film reveals how simultaneously connected and isolated they all are through the great spectacle that is modern life.
Alex Monteith, 'Deepwater Currents' (2020)
Shot between Piha, Auckland and Mullaghmore, Ireland, Deepwater Currents grapples with formations and journeys of ocean currents as well as language traces from political or territorial claims in the ocean domain.
CIRCUIT presents a progamme of recent works from Aotearoa in the International Short Film Festival 2021, Oberhausen. CIRCUIT is presenting it's programme alongside other international distributors of artist moving image including LUX (UK), Video Data Bank (USA). You can watch the CIRCUIT and the other Distributors programmes online for 48 hours.
Meanwhile, in the international competition, Sione Monu’s 'Only Yesterday' (2020) shows as part of International Competition 1 on May 1, and Rangituhia Hollis' 'Across the Face of the Moon' (2020) screens as part of International Competition 5 on 11am, 8 May.
CIRCUIT Distributors Screening: Works
Stella Brennan, 'The Pacific Century' (2018)
The Pacific Century attempts to construct a human scale for the enduring legacy of atomic waste and of nuclear testing in the South Pacific.
Natasha Matila-Smith, 'Self-isolating in Your Heart' (2020)
The anxiety of being lonely in public and private spaces is read anew in the context of the global COVID-19 pandemic, as intimacies are reconfigured physically and digitally.” - Runway Journal
Neihana Gordon-Stables, 'I like this queer scene but i've slept with both of them' (2017)
'I like this queer scene...' suggests the cinematic tropes of the coming of age movie, only to abruptly end after 90 seconds, it's truncated length analogous to the limits of the "small town queer scene" it depicts.
Alex Plumb, 'The Luring' (2017)
A visually-driven, psychological snapshot into the lives of three different people and what they desire. Set in a seemingly familiar yet dystopian present, the film reveals how simultaneously connected and isolated they all are through the great spectacle that is modern life.
Alex Monteith, 'Deepwater Currents' (2020)
Shot between Piha, Auckland and Mullaghmore, Ireland, Deepwater Currents grapples with formations and journeys of ocean currents as well as language traces from political or territorial claims in the ocean domain.
NZ artist films at Oberhausen IFF 2018
Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany.
12.30PM — 2.00PM
05 May 2018
At 12:30pm on Saturday 5 May, CIRCUIT presents six recent artworks from Brit Bunkley, Phil Dadson, John Di Stefano, Gavin Hipkins, Nova Paul and Aliyah Winter at the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen.
Aliyah Winter, Eli Jenkins’ Prayer (2016): Featuring material from the archive of the artist’s late grandfather, Eli Jenkins’ Prayer plays with a form of “drag”, both visually and temporally, to embody queerness through time and space.
Gavin Hipkins, City of Tomorrow (2017): Chandigarh's modern architecture is explored through Le Corbusier's early writings on repetition and order, and images of the planned capital city
Nova Paul, The Week before Spring (2017): Shot from a window during an extended period of convalescence, The Week before Spring registers the shifts in nature during a period of transition for the artist and the world outside.
John Di Stefano, Murmurations (Rome) (2017): A meditation on fascism through two historical sites in Rome; the sports complex Foro Italico, (formerly Foro Mussolini) and the cave Fosse Ardeatine.
Brit Bunkley, Ghost Shelters (2017): Using drone mounted cameras and 3D modelling, Ghost Shelters maps a series of abject monuments in Germany and the United States.
Phil Dadson, Anatomia Sonora, Sentinels of the Tides (2016): A portrait of Venice from a kayak, using sound to map the under-bridge acoustics.
Founded in 1954, Oberhausen is one of the oldest short film festivals in the world, and is a unique cross-over of the film and art world. CIRCUIT is part of the Market section of the festival, where the world's video art distributors come together to each present a screening of recent works.
At 12:30pm on Saturday 5 May, CIRCUIT presents six recent artworks from Brit Bunkley, Phil Dadson, John Di Stefano, Gavin Hipkins, Nova Paul and Aliyah Winter at the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen.
Aliyah Winter, Eli Jenkins’ Prayer (2016): Featuring material from the archive of the artist’s late grandfather, Eli Jenkins’ Prayer plays with a form of “drag”, both visually and temporally, to embody queerness through time and space.
Gavin Hipkins, City of Tomorrow (2017): Chandigarh's modern architecture is explored through Le Corbusier's early writings on repetition and order, and images of the planned capital city
Nova Paul, The Week before Spring (2017): Shot from a window during an extended period of convalescence, The Week before Spring registers the shifts in nature during a period of transition for the artist and the world outside.
John Di Stefano, Murmurations (Rome) (2017): A meditation on fascism through two historical sites in Rome; the sports complex Foro Italico, (formerly Foro Mussolini) and the cave Fosse Ardeatine.
Brit Bunkley, Ghost Shelters (2017): Using drone mounted cameras and 3D modelling, Ghost Shelters maps a series of abject monuments in Germany and the United States.
Phil Dadson, Anatomia Sonora, Sentinels of the Tides (2016): A portrait of Venice from a kayak, using sound to map the under-bridge acoustics.
Founded in 1954, Oberhausen is one of the oldest short film festivals in the world, and is a unique cross-over of the film and art world. CIRCUIT is part of the Market section of the festival, where the world's video art distributors come together to each present a screening of recent works.