Calling Time
After 13 years of publishing in print and online, The Lumière Reader is taking a break.
After 13 years of publishing in print and online, The Lumière Reader is taking a break.
Two decades on from Cinema of Unease, Tim Wong’s ambitious essay film contemplates the prevailing image of a national cinema while privileging some of the images and image-makers displaced by the popular view of filmmaking in New Zealand.
Alex Mitcalfe Wilson charts the journey a book follows when it is published today, telling a story of creativity and commitment through the words of those who carry a text through each step of that path: writers, editors, designers, printers, binders, booksellers, and librarians.
Parting thoughts and reflections on the New Zealand International Film Festival from TIM WONG and DOUG DILLAMAN.
Claire Duncan follows her musical comrades on a tour of New Zealand in this contemplative ode to a brood of genre-bending Auckland musicians, among them Girls Pissing on Girls Pissing, Seth Frightening, and Shab Orkestra.
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.
An Auckland Writers Festival 2015 preview, with selected highlights by our editors and contributors.
The cinematic year as remembered by our editors and contributors.
Our New Zealand International Film Festival correspondents select their personal highlights for 2014.
We’re excited to be collaborating with Dunedin’s Blue Oyster Art Project Space on a new Summer Writing Residency focused on critical writing practice.
DOUG DILLAMAN and TIM WONG talk Jake the movie, scriptwriting as a means to an end, collaboration vs. authorship, and finding the right tone.
Acts of note at the New Zealand International Comedy Festival 2014. Reviews by MICHAEL BOYES, BRANNAVAN GNANALINGAM, SAMUEL PHILLIPS.
Further hits and misses from the New Zealand Fringe Festival 2014. Reviews by ALICE MAY CONNOLLY, JONATHAN PRICE, MICHAEL BOYES, SAMUEL PHILLIPS.
Hits and misses from the New Zealand Fringe Festival 2014. Reviews by ALICE MAY CONNOLLY, C. CARD, JONATHAN PRICE, MICHAEL BOYES, SAMUEL PHILLIPS, TOM CLARKE.
Our editors and contributors select their favourites from a bountiful year in film.
To mark ten years online and in print, a selection of “personal milestones” from past and present contributors to The Lumière Reader.
To mark ten years online and in print, a selection of “personal milestones” from past and present contributors to The Lumière Reader.
Lumière contributors BRANNAVAN GNANALINGAM and THOMASIN SLEIGH, authors of You Should Have Come Here When You Were Not Here and Ad Lib respectively, get talking about the process of writing a novel.
A roundup of film favourites from our most prolific Auckland and Wellington correspondents at the New Zealand International Film Festival 2013.
At the New Zealand International Film Festival, , JACOB POWELL on Shane Carruth’s belated follow-up to Primer; and ALICE MAY CONNOLLY on Theo Taylor’s honest portrait of escalating anxiety.