Memories of summers past with Gregg’s Coffee
We’ve had a bit of a halcyon summer and its great to see another blue sparkler in Wellington today (despite
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The history of history: New Zealand Wars Cinema and the Archives
Was Rewi’s Last Stand marketed in relation to WWII? What did American audiences make of Utu? Who played all the extra soldiers in Utu? What was in the lost 49 minutes of Rewi’s Last Stand? Research student Caitlin Lynch writes about her use of Ngā Taonga’s documentation archives for her Honours dissertation.
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Hepi Mita reflects on Bill Gosden’s tenure at NZIFF
Heperi Mita reflects on the contribution of New Zealand International Film Festival Director Bill Gosden, following the announcement that he will retire in March 2019.
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Growing up and blowing up with Geoff Murphy
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…
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The Maoriland Film Company
Lawrence Wharerau traces the history of Otaki’s early film industry in an article originally published in Otaki Today.
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‘Hostilities will cease…’ – Memories of the end of World War 1
Sarah Johnston has selected some recordings from the sound archive in which New Zealanders recall the end of World War One in November 1918.
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‘We Wouldn’t be a People’: Kaumātuatanga and Tangata Whenua (1974)
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.
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Te Taki A Merata Mita – How Mum Decolonised The Screen
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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Te Anakura: a place of treasures
Access project developer Emma Richardson takes a look into the history of Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision’s Wellington building, Te Anakura, and its place within Te Aro.
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Ngā taringa hou – New ears for old voices
Wellington may have enjoyed an unusually-splendid summer this year, but three Victoria University Māori Studies students have not seen a lot of the sun. They spent their break from late November until late February in the Taranaki Street offices of Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision. With headphones fixed to their heads they passed the summer listening to the voices of tūpuna, recorded many decades before they were born.
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