To describe with intense clarity
May 25, 2015
The Auckland Writers Festival refracted through a dialogue with Haruki Murakami interviewer John Freeman.
Archives by Month » May 2015
Documentary Edge Festival 2015: (T)ERROR, Heaven Adores You, Sweet Micky for President
May 22, 2015
At the Documentary Edge Festival: counter-terrorism through the eyes of an informant; the life and times of Elliot Smith; and an unlikely Haitian presidential campaign.
Documentary Edge Festival 2015: The Desk, Tales of the Grim Sleeper, Actress
May 22, 2015
At the Documentary Edge Festival: an uneasy blend of personal ambition and failure, a thoughtful true crime community portrait, and a poetic essay of a woman’s conflicting identity of mother versus performer.
“The music of being human”
May 21, 2015
Auckland Writers Festival guests David Mitchell, Morris Gleitzman, Tim Winton, and Carol Ann Duffy offer a salient reminder of how writing gives us hope.
“Sometimes we are greater than ourselves when we write”
May 20, 2015
At this year’s Auckland Writers Festival, the glass was not just half-full, but brimming, overflowing.
“I wasn’t ready to be a bestselling author”—Haruki Murakami
May 19, 2015
Haruki Murakami talks cats, enemies, and his subconscious at the Auckland Writers Festival.
Live Live Cinema:
Little Shop of Horrors
May 19, 2015
A shamelessly silly stage adaptation of Roger Corman’s cult classic Little Shop of Horrors .
Charulata (1964)
May 14, 2015
Previously at the Wellington Film Society: a tale of creative and romantic liberation from Bengali master Satyajit Ray.
On Where the Rekohu Bone Sings
May 12, 2015
A conversation about damaging myths, Moriori ancestry, and fluid cultural identities with novelist Tina Makereti.
The Big City (1963)
May 8, 2015
Previously at the Wellington Film Society: Satyajit Ray’s powerful working-class family drama set in his native Calcutta.
A Doll’s House
May 6, 2015
Emily Perkins transports Ibsen’s classic 19th century text to present day New Zealand.
Nautilus
May 4, 2015
Trygve Wakenshaw’s latest minimalist comedy show.
Against Efficiency and other texts
May 1, 2015
Summer Writing Resident Matilda Fraser responds to the question “is criticism still relevant?” with this suite of texts developed under Blue Oyster Art Project Space’s online publications initiative, with mentorship and publishing support from The Lumière Reader.
The Rituals of Reporoa:
The Ground We Won
May 1, 2015
A conversation about tackling rugby, male identity, and rural stoicism with filmmakers Christopher Pryor and Miriam Smith.