Upcoming Screenings and Events at the Film Archive

This week we have film makers in the house. On Wednesday Gaylene Preston introduces her classic Mr Wrong, on Friday Michael Heath presents his Edith Collier documentaries.

Next week we go way out west (and north) to West Auckland to Gordonia

WEDNESDAY 7 NOVEMBER

Mr Wrong
mediatheatre, 6.45pm
35mm, NZ, 1985, PG-violence, 88 mins
Director: Gaylene Preston
Producers: Robin Laing, Gaylene Preston
With: Heather Bolton, David Letch, Gary Stalker, Danny Mulheron, Kate Harcourt

Join us for the last WIFT event this year with a screening of Mr Wrong. Gaylene Preston will introduce the screening at 6.45pm and there will be time for a Q&A at the end. The story of a young woman who buys a haunted car, an old Jaguar, which she thinks is a bargain. Her first doubts occur when she is driving on a remote country road. She hears strangulated gasps coming from the back seat. But the seat is empty...
$5 Public
WIFT members free entry

THURSDAY 8, FRIDAY 9 & SATURDAY 10 NOVEMBER

Edith Collier: two documentaries
mediatheatre 7:00pm, plus an extra screening at 4.30pm Saturday 10th
NZ, Exempt, programme runs 128 minutes

Two acclaimed documentaries about early 20th century painter Edith Collier, by director Michael Heath. Both films had sell-out screenings at the New Zealand International Film Festivals in 2007 and 2012 where they had their World Premieres.

Director Michael Heath will be present to introduce the screening on Friday 9 December.

Edith Collier: A Light Among Shadows, 65 mins, 2007
Paying tribute to the woman recognised as one of our greatest modern painters, Edith Collier: A Light Among Shadows is a very human and expressionistic journey of Collier's way of seeing the world.
Village by the Sea, 61 minutes, 2012
A companion film to Light Among Shadows, filmed in Ireland where Edith Collier and colleagues spent two summers in 1914-15, at the beginning of the First World War, living in the small, coastal village of Bunmahon.
$10 / $8

WEDNESDAY 14, THURSDAY 15, FRIDAY 16 & SATURDAY 17 NOVEMBER

Gordonia

mediatheatre 7pm

NZ, 2008, Exempt, 80 minutes
Producer/Photography: Tom Reilly
Editors: Tom Reilly, Roger Yeaxley
Music: Billy TK Senior

With: Graham Gordon, Randal Wilson, Shane Campbell, Jeanae Gordon, Brodie Andrews, James Harvey, Mervin Hellyer, Martin Lush, Rod Haywood, Billy TK Senior, Sue Riley, Wally Thomas, Bob Harvey
A documentary about one man’s fight to keep a little part of West Auckland free from the red tape of district councils. Gordonia is the account of Graham Gordon's battle with the Waitakere City Council over his land, his cars and especially his wonderfully colourful tenants. Described by Marcus Lush as "One of the most extraordinary NZ documentaries in recent times, or perhaps ever," Gordonia shares the story of a community of wild West Auckland men, as they fight for their right to live rough in a "designated scenic area" in the Waitakere Ranges.
$8 / $6

FROM THURSDAY 4 OCTOBER

Remixed
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Daily (except Sunday)
Curated by 2012 Curators at Large, Jenny Gillam and Eugene Hansen.
Artists directly respond to materials housed in The Film Archive collection, re-editing and sampling source materials forRemixed. Featuring work by artists: Terry and Lewis Urbahn, Shannon Reed, Daniel Shaw, Rachel Shearer.
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