Film Screening this Saturday

Free Film Screening

Saturday 24 November, 4pm
New Zealand Film Archive
84 Taranaki Street
brought to you by the Adam Art Gallery and Elam School of Fine Arts

In support of the one work exhibition of Martha Rosler’s The Bowery in Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems (1974-75) the Adam Art Gallery, with the Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, present the second of two practitioner-focused events exploring the history, politics, and contemporaneity of documentary practice.

Films Screening:

Martha Rosler Reads “Vogue”, dir. Martha Rosler, 1982. 25:45 min., colour, sound

Super-8 Shorts, dir. Martha Rosler, 1974. 14:50 min., Super 8mm film on video, colour, silent
Backyard Economy I, 3:26 min.

Backyard Economy II (Diane Germain Mowing), 6:32 min.

Flower Fields, 3:40 min.

Te matakite o Aotearoa / The Māori Land March, dir. Geoff Steven, 1975, Seehear Films/TV2. 60 min., colour, sound. Photography: Leon Narbey, Camera Assistant: Gil Scrine, Sound: Philip Dadson, Editing: Geoff Steven, Philip Dadson, Gil Scrine.
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Why did so many artists of the 1970s make argument-based films? What does the interplay of sound and image offer to the aesthetics of conceptual art? And where do we locate the global resonance of social issues as indigenous as The Bowery, and as historical as the Māori land march?
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Please note: Doors open at 4.00 pm, screening at 4.15 sharp!
Alex Monteith and Christina Barton will lead a conversation after the screening.

Adam Art Gallery Te Pātaka Toi
Victoria University of Wellington
Gate 3, Kelburn Parade
PO Box 600
Wellington 6140, New Zealand
+ 64 4 463 5229
adamartgallery@vuw.ac.nz
www.adamartgallery.org.nz

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