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.