Gauge

The blog of New Zealand’s Audiovisual Archive

Growing up and blowing up with Geoff Murphy

November 15, 2018November 13, 2018 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision directing, family, film, Geoff Murphy, Goodbye Pork Pie, Heperi Mita, Hollywood, Last Outlaw, memoir, Never Say Die, Under Siege 2: Dark Territory

To coincide with our current season Flashbacks with Geoff Murphy: A Retrospective Trip, Heperi Mita shares some personal memories of growing up with a movie director for a father. And not just any movie director…

Film NZ History

The Maoriland Film Company

November 12, 2018November 12, 2018 Fraser Pettigrew funeral, Heeni Te Rei, Maoriland Film Company, Otaki, tangi

Lawrence Wharerau traces the history of Otaki’s early film industry in an article originally published in Otaki Today.

NZ History Sound

‘Hostilities will cease…’ – Memories of the end of World War 1

November 7, 2018November 7, 2018 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 1918, Armistice, epidemic, Great War, influenza, Le Quesnoy, Radio New Zealand, RNZ, sound, World War One, WW1, WW100, WWI

Sarah Johnston has selected some recordings from the sound archive in which New Zealanders recall the end of World War One in November 1918.

Documentary Film Ngā Taonga Kōrero NZ History Television

‘We Wouldn’t be a People’: Kaumātuatanga and Tangata Whenua (1974)

September 18, 2018September 18, 2018 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision

University of Leeds PhD student Emily Kate Timms, visited Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision in Wellington to delve into stories about Māori elders. She reflects on some of the rich and powerful material she discovered, as well as the importance of the presence of “cinematographic kaumātua” in our film and television history.

Film NZ History

Te Taki A Merata Mita – How Mum Decolonised The Screen

August 9, 2018August 13, 2018 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision

Merata Mita is remembered as an influential director and producer, and a pioneer of Māori filmmaking. Her son Hepi Mita has worked at Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision for the past 6 years. His film Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen premieres at the 2018 New Zealand International Film Festival.

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