lachiiOne for all you film and music enthu­si­asts out there (and more espe­cial­ly if you’re both): Lachii — the sin­gle-shot film by Ed Davis with accom­pa­ny­ing live music by HDU’s Tris­tan Dinge­mans (aka Kahu) — is hav­ing a pub­lic screen­ing at the Para­mount this Sun­day night (Novem­ber 27) at 9:30pm ($15/$10).

From the blurb…

Lachii is an hour-long con­tin­u­ous shot that fol­lows a small boy as he goes on a bit of an adven­ture round a small farm­let next to the Porirua Stream. The creek is lit­tered with half-buried treasures/domestic junk/heirlooms of indus­try. Lachi­i’s is a time­less jour­ney — in the same way that kids lose track of time when their imag­i­na­tion is tru­ly engaged in some­thing — build­ing a dam — climb­ing a tree — play­ing “poi­son grass” — flick­ing bug-shells off a fence post… Filmed on the site of a derelict flour­mill just off Wil­low­bank Road, Tawa.

The screen­ing of Lachii is accom­pa­nied by a live sound­track per­formed by KAHU, alone with gui­tar and fx ped­als. Tris­tan man­ages to cre­ate huge sweep­ing orches­tral move­ments as a solo act — using lay­ers of delay and and an e‑bow — which he then intro­duces dis­tant melodies and cat­a­clysmic sweep­ing hur­ri­ca­noes. It’s amaz­ing music to hear live — fill­ing the entire space as if in a church — and then drop­ping back to hear all the dis­tant sub­tle details that linger — a per­fect sound­track to Lachi­i’s intre­pid jour­ney in the creek.