by Anna
September 4, 2009
The Wellingtonista’s Font of all Film Knowledge Dan Slevin has been getting excited about this one.
For the next fortnight the Film Archive is showing a retrospective of the work of Wellington-based independent film making collective Vanguard Films.
Screening at the Archive’s cinema on the corner of Taranaki and Ghuznee Sts, are a range of exceptional documentaries and dramas, with equipment and gear used by the film makers over the years, also on display. There’s even a Bolex camera saved from detection by the French Military at Mururoa Atoll in 1973. Hidden in a barrel of oranges (the film stock in a sack of flour) a decoy camera was confiscated, but one Bolex remained in Vanguard member Alister Barry’s possession which he used to shoot footage of the Mururoa test site.
Don’t miss Russell Campbell and Alister Barry on Sunday with Chris Laidlaw this weekend at 9:30am (appropriately just after Mediawatch). And come in to the Film Archive to find out more about the collective’s ceaseless political and social activism over the last 30 years.
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by Anna
August 7, 2009
Although Wellington’s been turning on some stunning days recently, winter’s still officially here for a little while longer…
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To warm your wee souls, especially for those suffering from Film Festival withdrawal, the Film Archive (corner of Taranaki and Ghuznee Sts) has come up with a great Soup & A Seat concept.
It’s cinema condensed to fit into your hour-long lunchbreak. Each screening starts at 12:15pm on Fridays until 18 September.
And you get a film screening, including a hilarious range of docos, short films, even a Flight of the Conchords episode, and a cup of homemade soup FOR EIGHT BUCKS!
What a beauty. First screening today at 12:15pm is the plucky 1975 doco Lost in the Garden of the World, which features, among others, Werner Herzog, Martin Scorsese and Dustin Hoffman, in fine 70s form.
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