Tied up in black tape
By David Klein. Adam Sondej is a big fan of videotape. Most of his career has involved working with the
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Author: Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision
Reflections: Māoriland Film Festival
Nā Lawrence Wharerau ēnei tuhinga Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision’s Kaitoko Kaupapa Torotoronga ā-Iwi Matua – Senior Outreach Curator Māori
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Tūhonohono conference 2019
Tūhonohono – connecting to people and taonga Nā Gareth Seymour ēnei tuhinga. The 2019 Tūhonohono conference was on 28 and
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The finest animation studio in Horowhenua
A version of this article was originally published in Ōtaki Today. Did you know that Horowhenua was home to an international
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A question for April ’19
Tēnā koe, and welcome to a new regular blog feature. Ngā Taonga holds an enormous amount of audiovisual material and
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Thanks and best wishes, Bill Gosden
It’s hard to overstate how important Bill Gosden is to New Zealand film culture. “Bill has selected films for 40
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Memories of summers past with Gregg’s Coffee
We’ve had a bit of a halcyon summer and its great to see another blue sparkler in Wellington today (despite
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Growing up and blowing up with Geoff Murphy
To coincide with our current season Flashbacks with Geoff Murphy: A Retrospective Trip, Heperi Mita shares some personal memories of growing up with a movie director for a father. And not just any movie director…
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‘Hostilities will cease…’ – Memories of the end of World War 1
Sarah Johnston has selected some recordings from the sound archive in which New Zealanders recall the end of World War One in November 1918.
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‘We Wouldn’t be a People’: Kaumātuatanga and Tangata Whenua (1974)
University of Leeds PhD student Emily Kate Timms, visited Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision in Wellington to delve into stories about Māori elders. She reflects on some of the rich and powerful material she discovered, as well as the importance of the presence of “cinematographic kaumātua” in our film and television history.
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