Land and Sea: Landscape in NZ Experimental Film

LAND AND SEA: Landscape in New Zealand Experimental Film

Wednesday April 29, 7pm
New Zealand Film Archive mediatheatre
$8 / $6

Whilst we are aware of a landscape tradition in New Zealand painting and music - stretching from Augustus Earle to Colin McCahon, Douglas Lilburn, and beyond we are not so attuned to the idea of landscape in film. In LAND AND SEA: Landscape in New Zealand Experimental Film film-maker and critic Martin Rumsby makes a case for a landscape tradition in local experimental film. Featuring work by Emit Snakebeing, Richard von Sturmer, Jed Town, Peter Wareing, Martin Rumsby and others.

A filmmaker, writer, curator and exhibitor, Martin Rumsby has been a tireless advocate for experimental film for the past 30 years. He began working out of the Auckland Filmmakers' Co-operative Alternative Cinema in 1980, and subsequently established an independent film distribution service and annual national touring film programs.

In 1985 he was the recipient of an Air New Zealand/Arts Council Travel Award to North America. Rumsby purchased 35 New Zealand films and for the next ten years toured his film programs through North American media arts centres, universities and art galleries. The further he traveled the more films he bought, returning to New Zealand every three years to screen North American avant-garde films. Reviews of this Rumsby's INVISIBLE CINEMA film shows have been published in The New Zealand Listener, The Melbourne Age, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Weekly, Chicago Reader and Now, Toronto.

Martin Rumsby recently returned to New Zealand and is currently living in Auckland.

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