Hawke's Bay To Berlin – This Way Of Life (Part VI)

This Way of Life is that rare thing – a truly quintessential Kiwi film. Shot over four years with no budget, the film follows the lives of Peter and Colleen Karena as they raise their six children on the thin edge between freedom and disaster.

The film has been selected to screen in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival, one of the top five festivals in the world.

Follow the filmmakers as they blog their journey from Hawke's Bay to Berlin.

Image: Cloud South Films.

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Part VI: Rubbish And Value - In describing her art Yolanda Sonnabend wrote: …rubbish and value all in one heap. And there it is – all of life captured in seven words.

Today was heartbreaking. We stepped outside after five utterly intense hours of filming and I was grateful for the rain. I started to cry and couldn't really stop, not for hours.

Perhaps it was the photos that undid me, such a life, so many handsome lovers, so many wild parties and exotic locations, so many truly beautiful people and everyone with an aging story of woe; suicides and cancers, messy divorces that landed one half in insane asylums, intrigue and pain rising from every dusty page of Yolanda’s disheveled photo album.

I begin to understand why she paints. How else to express the damage done, the intricately woven nest of agonies we inflict upon one another. It’s still raining. I’m pleased about that.

For more, See:
The Blog: This Way Of Life Goes To Berlin
The Trailer: This Way Of Life (official site)
Filmmaker's Site: Cloud South Films

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