TODAY at SPARK 07: Tuesday 7 August

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Tuesday 7 August

09.00 Filmmaker: Nova Paul
11.00 Art Dealer: Anna Miles
13.30 Film Screening: The Bolivarian Dream
15.00 Workshop with Anna Miles - this workshop is now full
19.30 Film screening – Victoria Cinema, Hosted by Hamilton Film Society

09.00: Nova Paul | Moving Image Studio, R Block, Wintec
Nova Paul is a filmmaker and senior lecturer at Auckland University of Technology. Her films and video installations deal with the production of space and its representation on the screen. Her recent film Pink and White Terraces, a 16mm film that uses the early cinematic technique of three colour separation (technicolour) to explore spaces of reflection in her local cityscape, has been exhibited in Telecom 2006 New Zealand International Film Festival, Telecom Prospect 2007: New Art New Zealand, City Gallery Wellington and screened at The Physics Room, Christchurch. Nova Paul will present her most recent films and talk about her work.

11.00: Anna Miles | Moving Image Studio, R Block, Wintec
Anna Miles established Anna Miles Gallery in Auckland in 2003. She has taught at Elam School of Fine Arts and Unitec School of Design. She is now Senior Lecturer in the School of Art and Design at Auckland University of Technology where she has responsibility for the theoretical component of the final year of the Bachelor of Visual Arts degree. In 2006 she curated the exhibition, Bespoke: The Pervasiveness of the Handmade for Objectspace, Auckland. Edith Amituanai, Allan McDonald and Darren Glass are three artists working predominantly in photography who Anna Miles represent and their work will be the subject of Anna’s presentation.

13.30: The Bolivarian Dream | Moving Image Studio, R Block, Wintec
Bolivarian Dream is a collection of short films developed by Chilean artist collective Hoffmann's House specifically for the South Project's Santiago programme in October 2006. The video compilation features a selection of 24 contemporary Latin American video artists who, in various ways, explore notions of collaboration and unification. Bolivarian Dream takes as a reference point the utopic vision of Latin American political figure Simon Bolivar, whom aspired to foster a unified pan-America in the early 1820s. The curatorial aim was to show a broad selection of video art from the area, rather than a thematic compilation, and features work by Ivan Navarro (Chile), Pablo Helguera (Mexico), Douglas Rodrigo Rada (Bolivia), and Rolando Vargas (Colombia). Approximate running time: 1 hour 30 minutes

19.30: Beck Cole & Warwick Thornton Film Screenings | Victoria Cinema, 690-692 Victoria Street
A selection of films by Beck Cole and Warwick Thornton hosted by the Hamilton Film Society at the Victoria Cinema. Beck Cole writes and directs for film and television. Her documentaries include: The Lore of Love, Wirriya – Small Boy which won Best Film at the 2004 Women on Women Film Festival in Sydney. Her short drama Flat was shown at the Sundance and Edinburgh Film Festivals in 2004. Warwick Thornton is a writer and director who in 1997 shot his first feature film, Radiance. In 1998 he was cinematographer on the award-winning short dramas My bed Your Bed and Promise. Green Bush won Best Short Film in the Panorama Section of the 2005 Berlin International Film Festival and two Dendy Awards at the Sydney Film Festival.

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