filmmaking – Gauge

Archiving Practice Film NZ History

The history of history: New Zealand Wars Cinema and the Archives

December 24, 2018January 30, 2019 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments Alfred Hill, film, filmmaking, Geoff Murphy, Jonathan Dennis Library, NZ history, Ramai Hayward, research tips, Rewi's Last Stand, River Queen, Rudall Hayward, The Last Stand, Utu, Vincent Ward

Was Rewi’s Last Stand marketed in relation to WWII? What did American audiences make of Utu? Who played all the extra soldiers in Utu? What was in the lost 49 minutes of Rewi’s Last Stand? Research student Caitlin Lynch writes about her use of Ngā Taonga’s documentation archives for her Honours dissertation.

Bill Gosden, Director of NZIFF, in the 1990s

Hepi Mita reflects on Bill Gosden’s tenure at NZIFF

December 21, 2018January 30, 2019 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments Bill Gosden, festival, filmmaking, Geoff Murphy, Heperi Mita, Merata Mita, Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen, NZIFF, Patu!, Utu, Utu Redux

Heperi Mita reflects on the contribution of New Zealand International Film Festival Director Bill Gosden, following the announcement that he will retire in March 2019.

Film NZ History

Movie-going during the First World War

January 28, 2016April 6, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1910s, D.W. Griffith, filmmaking, James Taylor, Pathe, star system, World War One, WW1, WW100, WWI

– By James Taylor (Research Co-ordinator, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) Going to the movies was a favourite pastime for New

“Scruff,” a Short Film In-The-Making

June 29, 2015June 29, 2015 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 2010s, Alex Porter, behind the scenes, Christchurch, Ed Lust, film, filmmaking, fundraising, Scruff

Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision Audio Conservator Alex Porter has hidden talents. Outside of her day job as an archivist, she

Talking WUFF with Dan Harris

May 21, 2015July 13, 2015 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments Dan Harris, Ellen Pullar, experimental film, experimental filmmaking, filmmaking, short films, Wellington Underground Film Festival, WUFF

We caught up with Dan Harris, a talented and fascinating Wellington filmmaker, whose film, Bodies In the Void, will screen

Documentary techniques and where they come from

May 30, 2014March 29, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments Alain Resnais, Ari Folman, Chris Landreth, documentary, Drifters, Dziga Vertov, Farrebique, filmmaking, Frank Capra, George Rouquier, Jakki Galloway, Jan Troell, John Grierson, Leni Riefenstahl, Man with a Movie Camera, Man with a Movie Camera: A Global Remake, Marchel Ophuls, Michael Moore, Nanook of the North, Nazi, Nicole Vedres, Night and Fog, Nightmail, Operation Teutonic Sword, Paris 1900, Perry Bard, Portrait of Osa, Robert Flaherty, Roger and Me, Ryan, The Days that Shook the World, The Einstein Theory of Relativity, The March Of Time, The Sinking of Lusitania, The Sorrow and The Pity, The Thornikes, Triumph of Will, Vichy, Waltz with Bashir, Winsor McCay

– By Jakki Galloway (Film Archive Programme Developer) As part of The New Zealand Film Archive’s contribution to the WWI