As all film festivals should be, the Artist’s Film Festival (AFF) is sprawling and diverse. Following its successful run at the New Zealand Film Archive in Wellington earlier this year, the 3rd AFF is due to arrive at The Physics Room from Tuesday 3 June 2008 for a week of self navigated screenings.
http://www.physicsroom.org.nz/gallery/2008/aff/
Presented by the New Zealand Film Archive and Canary Gallery the Artist’s Film Festival brings together over 30 contemporary video works from all over New Zealand. The show is curated by Paula J. Booker and features work by artists including Bronwyn Holloway-Smith, Rachel O’Neill, Marnie Slater, Murray Hewitt, Colin Hodson, Tao Wells and Sandy Gibbs. Booker says “This show is gonna kick ass!” And who are we to disagree?
ARTISTS FILM FESTIVAL, Friday April 11 – Saturday May 17, 2008
New Zealand Film Archive mediaplex
pod – a new video work by Bronwyn Holloway-Smith will be screened publicly for the first time as part of Séance for Nam June Paik. The screening/ performance event, curated by Daniel Agnihotri-Clark, will take place on the 23 February 2008 at 8pm in the SOFA Gallery Basement, Christchurch Arts Centre, Christchurch, New Zealand. Séance is occuring as part of Tending Networks: the fifth Aotearoa Digital Arts (ADA) symposium, and in conjunction with The Physics Room’s public exhibitions programme.
Our beloved Amiga 500 Arcade “Agnus” will be available for public use at the Hirschfeld Gallery from 23 November 2007 – 27 January 2008 as part of the exhibition Living Together.
We have chosen a bunch of games that will be able to be played during the duration of the exhibition, including The New Zealand Story.
From the press release:
“Living Together shares and celebrates work from artists’ own collections. Wellington artists and designers have been invited to lend a work of special meaning or interest to them from their own homes. The lenders include artists and designers who have had a recent involvement with the Michael Hirschfeld Gallery.”
Mighty Box first screened in 2006 as part Wildlife (Enjoy Public Art Gallery, 2006): a wider investigation into the history and cultural context of Guy Fawkes celebrations.
Wellington’s City Gallery now presents Mighty Box in SQUARE2 from 5 November-9 December, 2007 (timed to coincide with Guy Fawkes this year).
Territorial Pissings, curated by Caroline Johnston, August 8-25 2007. Contributing artists include Sarah Jane Parton, Greg Sharp, Marnie Slater, Mark Williams, Bronwyn Smith, Johanna Sanders, Mike Heynes, Caroline Johnston, Carlos Wedde, Shay Launder.
http://masseynews.massey.ac.nz/2007/Press_Releases/08-14-07.html