A word from ART DEPT
We are proud to be co-hosting this year's festival, and bringing an inspiring curation of films to Aotearoa. Thank you to Clare and her previous curators for establishing such a brilliant event, and to the team at Rialto Cinemas for their expertise.
In a time when the world is changing rapidly, experimenting with new ways of looking at design and architecture is more important than ever. We believe that architecture and design are in everything we see and interact with, inspired by the creative and contemporary culture around us. In response to this, the films at this year's festival embody high doses of creativity and problem solving that begins from a place of bravery, commitment and vision.
Our four film categories—QUIET ICONS, CREATIVITY, PROBLEM SOLVING and IMPORTANCE OF PLACE—not only represent pillars in the world of architecture and design, but also speak to the relevancy of the times we are in. Our line-up reflects how masterful spaces and projects can only exist with the help of community and team devotion.
Thank you for your support. Explore the screenings on offer, note down your must-sees and enjoy!
— Yasmine, Adam, Sara and Diana, ART DEPT
If there is anything that the last couple of challenging years have taught us, is that even on the darkest days there are always those that can see the light and rise to the challenge, no matter how daunting that challenge may be.
And so we have seen it in the design and architecture space. Even when it has felt like so much has stood still, design and architecture has evolved ever forward. We have seen a wave of heritage projects be reinvented respecting the memories of the past blended with innovative technology and modern life to make the projects relevant well into the future.
Thanks to Rialto Cinemas, the Resene Architecture and Design Film Festival has also continued to flourish to become one of the largest architecture and design film festivals in the world. It has been 11 years since the Resene Architecture & Design Film Festival first started and when we look back over all the films that have been screened over the years, we have been inspired, challenged and energised with new thinking and new ideas. This year's festival promises to continue that tradition.
Ted Nightingale started Resene in a Wellington garage 76 years ago with one problem and after much concerted effort and experimentation making paint in a cement mixer, one solution. This coating solution then became the answer for many others. And thus the Resene journey began, with each new problem bringing with it a zest for new knowledge, technology and techniques to discover, a journey spurred on by the voracious appetite of the architecture and design community to always aim higher.
We are delighted to help bring this festival to you to thank you for the inspiration and thought- provoking ideas you so generously share with us. We hope that you enjoy the fresh inspiration and insights as much as we do.
— Nick Nightingale, Managing Director, Resene
Entering the 11th year of the festival has shown us that no two years of organising a film festival are alike. Our longtime curator Clearly & Co has decided to depart after seven editions of the festival and we thank them for their passion, input and time.
Our new curators—ART DEPT—bring a wealth of experience, connections and creativity to continue giving the festival its flair. ART DEPT is behind the popular magazine ISLAND and we're excited about the direction the festival is headed this year and beyond.
In what is another extraordinary year for us all, coming into this year's festival, we are immensely grateful for the support from both new and existing sponsors. This festival cannot happen without them. We can't thank them all enough.
We also partner with cinema exhibitors nationwide who put their heart and soul into the festival each year. We thank them for their adaptability, understanding and loyalty.
The last two years since Covid-19 arrived on the scene have presented us with both unforeseen challenges and surprises, including the cancellation of the 2020 festival followed by a record year for the 2021 festival as cinema-goers demonstrated their enthusiasm for the films and events on offer. The landscape is ever evolving for us all and we've been overwhelmed by your attendance and engagement in the festival which is key to this festival's growth and ability to keep delivering the films we bring to you each year.
Book your tickets, select your wine at the bar and fill your head with all the creativity out in the world that this festival celebrates.
— Kathryn Bennett, Rialto Cinemas
See the programme below for details or download a PDF version. › Book your tickets online
Auckland @ Rialto Cinemas - Newmarket — 5-25 May | Wellington @ Embassy Theatre, @ Lighthouse Cinema Cuba, @ Lighthouse Cinema Petone — 19 May-5 June | Dunedin @ Rialto Cinemas — 2-15 June | Christchurch @ Deluxe Cinemas — 9–26 June | Havelock North @ Event Cinemas — 9-22 June
Category 01:
Celebrating those so devoted to the cause and the intention, that they don't realise their own impact on their community and industry.
Category 02:
Fuelled by restriction and curiosity, finding a singular solution to a universal problem requires doses of imaginative and radical thinking.
Category 03:
When it comes to carving a way for new thought and experience, one must always have the ability to ask with optimism, what if and why not?
Category 04:
Every location has an abundance of potential, but it is those that listen for those offerings that receive the greatest of gifts.
Category: Quiet Icons
Having produced around 400 projects over a 50-year career, the famous Brazilian architect Han Broos has influenced several generations of architects and urban planners, and he was one of the prominent practitioners of the Escola Paulista. His 60s and 70s architecture is usually associated with heavy brutalism embracing avant-garde qualities and rough materiality to create undeniably exceptional spaces.
Broos is suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Little by little, memories of his life, work and relationships are washed away. With his work marked by deep relationships with geography and history, this documentary—filmed at his studio house Casa Broos in São Paulo—revisits those spaces and people through the architect's memories
Film presented by
Sessions:
AUCKLAND
Thu 5 May* 5:45pm arrival for a 6:15pm screening | Sat 7 May 4:15pm | Thu 12 May 8:15pm | Sun 15 May 2:15pm | Tue 17 May 12:15pm | Wed 25 May 10:45am
EMBASSY, WELLINGTON
Thu 19 May 6:30pm | Sun 22 May 3:45pm | Sat 28 May 6:30pm
CUBA, WELLINGTON
Wed 25 May 8:15pm | Sat 28 May 12:30pm | Tue 31 May 11:00am
PETONE, WELLINGTON
Thu 19 May 6:00pm | Tue 24 May 11:00am
DUNEDIN
Thu 2 June 6:15pm | Mon 6 June 3:15pm | Thu 9 June 8:15pm | Sat 11 June 1:00pm
CHRISTCHURCH
Thu 9 June 6:15pm | Sat 11 June 2:45pm | Thu 16 June 7:45pm | Mon 20 June 10:00am
HAVELOCK NORTH
Thu 9 June 5:45pm | Sat 11 June 4:30pm | Fri 17 June 1:00pm | Sun 19 June 11:00am
*Opening Night (includes a glass of wine, nibbles and film)
Category: Quiet Icons
Finnish artist Maija Isola began her long and remarkable career in 1949 as a textile designer at Printex, a home furnishings and fashion company which preceded Marimekko. Over 38 years, she designed more than 500 fabric patterns, covering an amazingly diverse range of motifs and design techniques.
Drawing inspiration from traditional folk art, modern visual art, nature and countless trips around the world, Isola's most well-known pattern is the Unikko pattern, created after the founder of Marimekko had announced that no floral fabrics are to be designed at the company. Isola did not accept rules or restrictions and designed in protest a complete collection of bold floral patterns.
The documentary film Maija Isola Master of Colour and Form travels in the footsteps of the dynamic artist through a series of letters written to her family and lover.
Film presented by
Sessions:
AUCKLAND
Wed 11 May *6:00pm arrival for a 6:15pm screening | Sat 14 May 8:15pm | Sun 15 May 4:00pm | Thu 19 May 8:00pm | Sat 21 May 12:30pm | Tue 24 May 10:45am
EMBASSY, WELLINGTON
Sat 21 May 8:15pm | Wed 25 May 6:00pm | Sat 28 May 2:15pm | Sun 29 May 12:30pm
CUBA, WELLINGTON
Sun 22 May 4:30pm | Tue 24 May 8:15pm | Wed 1 June 11:00am
PETONE, WELLINGTON
Sat 21 May 6:00pm | Sun 29 May 4:00pm
DUNEDIN
Sat 4 June 8:15pm | Wed 8 June 11:30am | Sun 12 June 3:00pm | Wed 15 June 6:00pm
CHRISTCHURCH
Sat 11 June 12:45pm | Tue 14 June 6:00pm | Thu 16 June 10:00am | Sat 18 June 6:00pm
HAVELOCK NORTH
Fri 10 June 7:45pm | Sat 11 June 2:30pm | Wed 15 June 10.30am | Sun 19 June 12:30pm
*Premiere Event (includes a glass of wine, goodie bag and film)
Category: Quiet Icons
Emily Richardson is an artist, filmmaker and researcher whose films explore the nature of our relationship to personal histories and the spaces we inhabit.
House Works is a film study on three modernist homes in East Anglia in the UK—architects H.T. 'Jim' and Betty Cadbury-Brown's 3 Church Walk in Aldeburgh, Suffolk (1962), architect John Penn's Beach House in Shingle Street, Suffolk (1969), and Richard and Su Rogers' Spender House and Studio—originally designed for the artist Humphrey Spender, near Maldon, Essex (1968). The stories of each house are embedded in the surfaces, objects and materials found within the domestic interior: reactivating these spaces lost to architectural history, the films express aspects of the potential stories held there.
Memo Mori is a journey through Hackney tracing loss and disappearance. A canoe trip along the canal, the huts of the Manor Garden allotments in Hackney Wick, demolition, relocation, a magical bus tour through the Olympic park and a Hell's Angel funeral mark a seismic shift in the topography of East London.
Sessions:
AUCKLAND
Mon 9 May 5:45pm | Fri 13 May 8:15pm | Tue 17 May 10:45am
EMBASSY, WELLINGTON
Sun 29 May 7:30pm
CUBA, WELLINGTON
Sun 22 May 6:30pm | Mon 30 May 11:00am
PETONE, WELLINGTON
Thu 26 May 6:00pm
DUNEDIN
Sun 12 June 5:15pm
CHRISTCHURCH
Mon 13 June 6:00pm | Sun 19 June 12:45pm | Wed 22 June 8:15pm
HAVELOCK NORTH
Fri 17 June 6:00pm
Category: Quiet Icons
Grethe Meyer is one of the great figures of Danish design, but perhaps also one of the most overlooked. As an architect and designer, Meyer left us with functional designs for the home, including dinnerware and cutlery, that are still of great importance today.
This hybrid documentary tells her story as a woman, artist, pioneer, mother and lover via an interesting and vulnerable narrative that puts her career, success and legacy into perspective.
Film presented by
Sessions:
AUCKLAND
Sun 8 May 12:00pm | Mon 9 May 7:15pm | Fri 13 May 5:15pm | Sun 15 May 6:00pm | Wed 18 May 10:45am | Sat 21 May 8:15pm
EMBASSY, WELLINGTON
Sat 21 May 2:00pm | Wed 25 May 8:00pm | Sun 29 May 6:00pm
CUBA, WELLINGTON
Fri 20 May 6:30pm | Thu 26 May 1:00pm | Tue 31 May 8:15pm
PETONE, WELLINGTON
Tue 24 May 6:00pm | Sat 28 May 4:30pm
DUNEDIN
Sat 4 June 2:30pm | Tue 7 June 7:45pm | Thu 9 June 11:30am | Sat 11 June 6:30pm
CHRISTCHURCH
Sat 11 June 8:00pm | Tue 14 June 10:00am | Thu 16 June 6:15pm | Tue 21 June 12:00pm
HAVELOCK NORTH
Sun 11 June 11:00am | Tue 14 June 5:30pm | Sat 18 June 7:45pm | Tue 21 June 10:30am
Category: Creativity
Go behind the scenes of the prominent art museum Uffizi Gallery, located in the Historic Centre of Florence. Built in 1561 by Giorgio Vasari, it is one of the world's oldest museums, in which every task becomes a ritual.
In this documentary, we meet the passionate staff, including German director Eike Schmidt, his assistants, architects, custodians and the concierge. The film invites us to immerse ourselves into the works of Botticelli and Artemisia Gentileschi and discover the 17th century painting Fall of the Rebel Angels that confronts us with our contemporary vulnerability and hubris. Wartime scenes and a Mafia bomb attack show the history of threats and the endless efforts to protect and maintain this unique collection for future generations.
Sessions:
AUCKLAND
Fri 6 May 10:45am | Sun 8 May 5:15pm | Wed 11 May 12:45pm | Sat 14 May 10:45am | Mon 16 May 7:15pm | Thu 19 May 12:15pm
EMBASSY, WELLINGTON
Sun 22 May 1:45pm | Fri 27 May 8:15pm | Mon 30 May 6:00pm
CUBA, WELLINGTON
Fri 20 May 1:30pm | Tue 24 May 6:15pm | Sat 28 May 2:15pm
PETONE, WELLINGTON
Mon 23 May 11:00am | Wed 1 June 6:00pm
DUNEDIN
Fri 3 June 11:30am | Sun 5 June 2:45pm | Sat 11 June 8:00pm | Tue 14 June 6:00pm
CHRISTCHURCH
Fri 10 June 10:00am | Sun 12 June 2:00pm | Sat 18 June 8:00pm | Mon 20 June 5:45pm
HAVELOCK NORTH
Sat 11 June 12:30pm | Sun 12 June 6:15pm | Fri 17 June 11:00am | Sun 19 June 2:30pm
Category: Creativity
From Mecca to MoMA, from Guatemala to Coca Cola, this documentary explores the untold story of design visionary and the absolutely charismatic Bruce Mau.
Revealing his unlikely rise in the creative world, and ever-optimistic push to tackle the world's biggest problems with design, this first-ever, feature- length documentary tells the story of his incredible career and his most important project yet: his own life.
Mau is a hopeful film that will make you rethink how you see the future.
Film presented by
Art lover's film night presented by
Sessions:
AUCKLAND
Sat 7 May 8:00pm | Sun 8 May 3:30pm | Tue 10 May 12:15pm | Thu 12 May *6:00pm arrival for a 6:15pm screening | Sat 14 May 2:45pm | Sun 15 May 12:30pm | Tue 17 May 7:45pm | Fri 20 May 10:45am
EMBASSY, WELLINGTON
Sat 21 May 6:30pm | Tue 24 May 8:00pm | Sat 28 May 12:30pm | Sun 29 May 4:15pm
CUBA, WELLINGTON
Fri 20 May 8:00pm | Sun 22 May 2:45pm | Sun 29 May 6:00pm | Wed 1 June 6:15pm
PETONE, WELLINGTON
Sat 21 May 4:15pm | Fri 27 May 6:00pm
DUNEDIN
Sat 4 June 6:30pm | Sun 5 June 1:00pm | Wed 8 June 1:30pm | Fri 10 June 7:45pm | Sun 12 June 1:15pm | Mon 13 June 11:45am
CHRISTCHURCH
Sat 11 June 6:15pm | Sun 12 June 12:15pm | Fri 17 June 8:00pm | Sat 18 June 4:15pm | Wed 22 June 10:00am
HAVELOCK NORTH
Sat 11 June 6:15pm | Sun 12 June 2:30pm | Thu 16 June 11:00am | Sat 18 June 4:30pm | Tue 21 June 5:15pm
*Art Lovers' Film Night (includes a glass of wine, introduction and film)
Category: Creativity
An intimate look at the contemporary photojournalist Steve McCurry, best known for his famed photograph 'Afghan Girl'. The one thing more poignant than McCurry's pictures is his tumultuous 40-year career, which he's spent travelling the globe essentially alone, capturing candid snapshots depicting the complexity of human life.
Exclusive interviews with family, friends, colleagues, and with the photographer himself, bring to life the stories behind some of the most iconic and enduring photographs of the 20th century. With unique access to the photographer's creative process and unpublished images, we discover how McCurry's vulnerabilities set him on the path to greatness and we witness first-hand his commitment to record what defines and unites humankind.
Photography lover's film night presented by
Sessions:
AUCKLAND
Sat 7 May 6:00pm | Sun 8 May 1:30pm | Thu 12 May 10:45am | Sat 14 May 4:30pm | Sun 15 May 10:30am | Wed 18 May* 6:00pm arrival for a 6:15pm screening | Fri 20 May 8:15pm | Wed 25 May 12:30pm
EMBASSY, WELLINGTON
Fri 20 May 6:15pm | Sun 22 May 11:45am | Thu 26 May 8:15pm | Sat 28 May 4:30pm
CUBA, WELLINGTON
Sat 21 May 8:00pm | Mon 23 May 6:00pm | Fri 27 May 6:30pm | Sun 29 May 1:30pm
PETONE, WELLINGTON
Sun 22 May 4:00pm | Sat 28 May 6:00pm
DUNEDIN
Fri 3 June 8:00pm | Mon 6 June 5:00pm | Tue 7 June 11:30am | Thu 9 June 1:15pm | Sat 11 June 2:45pm | Tue 14 June 8:00pm
CHRISTCHURCH
Fri 10 June 8:00pm | Sun 12 June 4:00pm | Wed 15 June 10:00am |
Sat 18 June 12:45pm | Sun 19 June 5:30pm
HAVELOCK NORTH
Fri 10 June 5:45pm | Sun 12 June 4:15pm | Sat 18 June 2:30pm | Sun 19 June 4:30pm | Wed 22 June 10:30am
*Photography Lovers' Film Night (includes a glass of bubbles, copy of ISLAND Magazine, introduction and film)
Category: Creativity
Alvin Ailey was a visionary artist and activist who found salvation through dance. The ground-breaking and influential choreographer, founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in 1958—a haven for nurturing Black artists and expressing the universality of the African-American experience and heritage through dance.
Sensorial and archival-rich, Ailey captures the brilliant and enigmatic man who, when confronted by a world that refused to embrace him, was determined to build one that would. Tracing the full contours of this extraordinary artist's biography, the documentary connects his past to our present with an intimate glimpse into the Ailey studios today, where we follow innovative hip-hop choreographer Rennie Harris as he conceives a new dance inspired by Ailey's life.
Sessions:
AUCKLAND
Sat 14 May 12:45pm | Sun 22 May 7:30pm
EMBASSY, WELLINGTON
Sun 22 May 5:30pm
CUBA, WELLINGTON
Fri 27 May 8:30pm
PETONE, WELLINGTON
Tue 31 May 6:00pm
DUNEDIN
Sun 5 June 8:00pm
CHRISTCHURCH
Sun 12 June 7:30pm | Fri 17 June 12:30pm
HAVELOCK NORTH
Thu 9 June 7:15pm
Category: Problem Solving
A half a billion dollar project, a crushing architectural challenge and impossible deadline, two warring political titans and an architect who has never built anything. What could go wrong?
From political intrigues and personal cost, to Pavarotti and opera's brightest stars, again and again nothing is what it seems. Building Bastille is a feature-length documentary that tells the comic, dramatic and tangled story of modern history's greatest case of mistaken identity and seized opportunity, combining current footage with archival images, and original 16MM film.
Film presented by
Sessions:
AUCKLAND
Sat 7 May 2:30pm | Wed 11 May 11:00am | Fri 13 May 1:30pm | Sat 14 May 6:30pm | Mon 16 May 12:30pm | Tue 24 May* 6:00pm
EMBASSY, WELLINGTON
Fri 20 May 8:15pm | Sun 29 May 2:30pm | Wed 1 June* 6:00pm
CUBA, WELLINGTON
Sat 21 May 12:45pm | Fri 27 May 1:00pm | Tue 31 May 6:30pm
PETONE, WELLINGTON
Sun 22 May 6:00pm | Mon 30 May 11:00am
DUNEDIN
Fri 3 June 6:15pm | Thu 9 June* 6:00pm | Sat 11 June 4:45pm | Wed 15 June 11:30am
CHRISTCHURCH
Fri 10 June 6:15pm | Wed 15 June 12:00pm | Sun 19 June 3:45pm | Wed 22 June* 6:00pm
HAVELOCK NORTH
Sat 11 June 8:00pm | Tue 14 June 10:30am | Thu 16 June 6:00pm | Mon 20 June 10:30am
*Includes Q&A hosted by Architectural Designers New Zealand
Category: Problem Solving
Set in the remote San Luis Valley of Colorado, this documentary follows design studio Rael San Fratello's experimentation with 3D-printing technology and traditional adobe architecture.
Motivated by the neglect of traditional adobe houses that once covered the region and the rise of concrete buildings, Studio Rael San Fratello connects contemporary technology with the legacy of pottery making and adobe architecture in the Southwest. It is an analytical exercise that strives to hold on to cultural traditions while pushing the limits of a humble, naturally occurring material with the help of 21st-century technology.
Sessions:
AUCKLAND
Fri 6 May 5:15pm | Sat 7 May 11:15am | Mon 9 May 10:15am | Mon 16 May 5:45pm | Wed 18 May 8:30pm | Tue 24 May 12:45pm
EMBASSY, WELLINGTON
Sat 21 May 5:00pm | Fri 27 May 6:45pm | Mon 30 May 8:00pm
CUBA, WELLINGTON
Tue 24 May 11:00am | Thu 26 May 6:30pm
PETONE, WELLINGTON
Fri 20 May 11:00am | Mon 23 May 6:00pm
DUNEDIN
Sat 4 June 1:00pm | Mon 6 June 7:00pm | Wed 8 June 6:00pm | Tue 14 June 11:30am
CHRISTCHURCH
Tue 14 June 8:00pm | Fri 17 June 6:30pm | Sun 19 June 2:15pm | Wed 22 June 11:45am
HAVELOCK NORTH
Fri 10 June 11:00am | Sun 12 June 1:00pm | Wed 15 June 5:30pm | Mon 20 June 5:30pm
Category: Problem Solving
The turn of the 21st Century was a golden age in Swedish urban planning. Hammarby Sjostad in Stockholm became a model around the world for attractive, eco-friendly urban design.
At the forefront of the new planning stood the architect Jan Inghe, who was a driving force in the movement to reclaim public space as a core value of urban planning. Inghe strived to show the example of how modernist plans could be married to the more intimate urban spaces.
Sessions:
AUCKLAND
Fri 6 May 6:45pm | Sun 8 May 10:30am | Thu 12 May 12:45pm | Sun 15 May 7:30pm | Fri 20 May 12:30pm | Mon 23 May 1:00pm
EMBASSY, WELLINGTON
Sat 21 May 3:30pm | Mon 23 May 7:45pm | Sat 28 May 11:00am
CUBA, WELLINGTON
Thu 19 May 6:15pm | Wed 25 May 11:00am | Wed 1 June 8:00pm
PETONE, WELLINGTON
Thu 26 May 11:00am | Mon 30 May 6:00pm
DUNEDIN
Fri 3 June 1.30pm | Tue 7 June 6:15pm | Sun 12 June 11:45am | Wed 15 June 8:00pm
CHRISTCHURCH
Mon 13 June 10:00am | Wed 15 June 6:15pm | Sat 18 June 2:45pm | Tue 21 June 8:00pm
HAVELOCK NORTH
Sun 12 June 11:30am | Thu 16 June 7:45pm | Sat 18 June 11:00am | Wed 22 June 5:30pm
Category: Problem Solving
In this three-year race against time, Tim Carey, a talented, unknown artist, who uses wit and humour to charm you into forgiving his flaws, bluffs his way into winning the commission to create the world's largest stained-glass window. The problem is, he doesn't know how to make it. After a desperate search for a saviour, he stumbles upon an Italian glass maestro named Narcissus Quagliata.
Tim quickly learns that his own talent and humour can only take him so far. If he has any chance to make it to the end of the project, he has to put down his ego and submit to the life and artistic lessons of the complicated master.
Even though the story takes place within the niche world of an ancient art form, it gives a universally fun, heartfelt and sometimes comedic look into the drama of any human endeavour which is greater than the sum of its parts.
Sessions:
AUCKLAND
Tue 10 May 8:00pm | Fri 13 May 11:00am | Wed 18 May 12:15pm | Sun 22 May 1:30pm | Mon 23 May 10:30am | Wed 25 May 8:15pm
EMBASSY, WELLINGTON
Sat 21 May 11:30am | Tue 31 May 8:00pm
CUBA, WELLINGTON
Mon 23 May 11:00am | Thu 26 May 8:00pm | Sun 29 May 3:30pm
PETONE, WELLINGTON
Fri 20 May 6:00pm | Wed 1 June 11:00am
DUNEDIN
Sat 4 June 4:00pm | Wed 8 June 7:30pm | Fri 10 June 11:15am | Sun 12 June 6:45pm
CHRISTCHURCH
Mon 13 June 11:30am | Wed 15 June 7:45pm | Fri 17 June 10:00am | Sun 19 June 7:30pm
HAVELOCK NORTH
Mon 13 June 10:30am | Wed 15 June 12:30pm | Fri 17 June 7:30pm | Wed 22 June 12:30pm
Category: The Importance of Place
Shelter without Shelter explores the hopes and challenges involved in providing temporary housing for refugees. Filmed over three years, this six-part documentary investigates how forced migrants from Syria were sheltered across Europe and the Middle East, ending up in mega-camps, city squats, occupied airports, illegal settlements, requisitioned buildings, flat-pack structures, and enormous architect-designed reception centres.
Containing perspectives from the humanitarians who created these shelters as well as the critics who campaigned against them, the documentary reveals the complex dilemmas involved in attempts to house refugees in emergency conditions.
Sessions:
AUCKLAND
Thu 5 May 8:15pm | Mon 9 May 11:45am | Mon 16 May 10:30am | Mon 23 May 7:15pm
EMBASSY, WELLINGTON
Thu 19 May 8:15pm | Thu 26 May 6:15pm
CUBA, WELLINGTON
Mon 23 May 8:00pm | Mon 30 May 7:45pm
PETONE, WELLINGTON
Wed 25 May 11:00am | Tue 31 May 11:00am
DUNEDIN
Thu 2 June 8:00pm | Wed 15 June 1:15pm
CHRISTCHURCH
Thu 9 June 8:00pm | Thu 16 June 12:00pm | Tue 21 June 10:00am
HAVELOCK NORTH
Fri 10 June 12:30pm | Sat 18 June 12:30pm
Category: The Importance of Place
Full of a wry wit and bursting with energy, High Maintenance is a warm and touching portrayal of Dani Karavan—world-famous Israeli sculptor, who has created nearly 100 environmental installations all across the world and won the most prestigious international art awards. Yet Karavan is far from satisfied. His monumental structures are deteriorating, his age is catching up with him, the political climate in Israel is driving him mad, and he becomes embroiled in a political and artistic conflict over his latest commission.
The director presents this larger-than-life personality with great sensitivity, including a fly-on-the-wall position at an intimate meeting between Karavan and renowned filmmaker Wim Wenders.
Sessions:
AUCKLAND
Sat 7 May 12:45pm | Tue 10 May 10:45am | Friday 13 May 6:45pm | Tue 17 May 6:15pm
EMBASSY, WELLINGTON
Tue 24 May 6:30pm | Sat 28 May 8:15pm
CUBA, WELLINGTON
Sat 21 May 2:30pm | Wed 25 May 6:45pm
PETONE, WELLINGTON
Sun 29 May 6:00pm
DUNEDIN
Sun 5 June 4:45pm | Fri 10 June 6:15pm
CHRISTCHURCH
Sun 12 June 6:00pm | Tue 14 June 11:30am | Mon 20 June 7:45pm
HAVELOCK NORTH
Sat 18 June 6:15pm
Category: The Importance of Place
The Ursus factory once covered 170 hectares and employed 20,000 workers, producing 100 tractors a day. Now, its buildings stand derelict and empty; half have already been demolished by investors with new plans.
The symphony of mechanical sounds and gestures that is gradually built up throughout the film is produced by former factory employees. Proud of their factory, they reminisce about the huge numbers of people and the parties they had. They were a community, passionate about supporting agriculture through their factory. The Ursus tractor was well-known, not only in Poland but throughout the world.
Director Jaśmina Wójcik worked with this group for nine months. She does not permit nostalgia, but offers a glimpse of an era we can no longer imagine.
Sessions:
AUCKLAND
Fri 6 May 12:45pm | Sun 8 May 7:15pm | Wed 11 May 8:30pm | Thu 19 May 10:45am
EMBASSY, WELLINGTON
Mon 23 May 6:15pm | Wed 1 June 8:15pm
CUBA, WELLINGTON
Thu 19 May 7:45pm | Mon 30 May 6:15pm
PETONE, WELLINGTON
Fri 27 May 11:00am
DUNEDIN
Mon 6 June 1:45pm | Mon 13 June 5:45pm
CHRISTCHURCH
Fri 10 June 12:00pm | Mon 13 June 7:30pm | Mon 20 June 11:45am
HAVELOCK NORTH
Mon 13 June 5:30pm | Thu 16 June 12:45pm
Category: The Importance of Place
A crowd-pleasing slice of nostalgia, this charming documentary offers a comprehensive history into the phenomenal franchise Horn & Hardart—the inspiration for Starbucks—and where generations of Americans were encouraged to eat and drink coffee together at communal tables throughout New York City and Philadelphia.
An important part of the American social fabric, Horn & Hardart were known for serving fresh meals through vending machines and encouraging communal-style dining. This documentary follows the growth and peak of the restaurant as it grapples with the looming rise of fast food.
Sessions:
AUCKLAND
Fri 6 May 8:15pm | Tue 10 May 6:15pm | Sun 22 May 11:45am
EMBASSY, WELLINGTON
Sun 22 May 7:30pm | Tue 31 May 6:15pm
CUBA, WELLINGTON
Sat 28 May 8:00pm
PETONE, WELLINGTON
Wed 25 May 6:00pm
DUNEDIN
Sun 5 June 6:15pm | Fri 10 June 1:45pm
CHRISTCHURCH
Sat 11 June 4:30pm | Tue 21 June 6:15pm
HAVELOCK NORTH
Sun 19 June 6:30pm
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