The Human Condition: An Interview with Joshua Oppenheimer
February 26, 2016
Ahead of The Look of Silence’s date at the Oscars for Best Documentary Feature, a conversation with filmmaker and human rights activist Joshua Oppenheimer.
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All Your Wants and Needs Overseas: An Interview with The PlayGround Collective
February 23, 2016
Robin Kerr and Eli Kent on staging their show All Your Wants and Needs Fulfilled Forever internationally, creative practice, and theatre culture in New Zealand.
“I feel like I was born for the Internet”
February 11, 2016
Mallory Ortberg, satirist and co-founder of The Toast, talks humour, femslash, and her conflicting soft spot for Ayn Rand ahead of New Zealand Festival Writers Week.
From Soft Bomb to Silver Bullets
December 24, 2015
Martin Phillipps on The Chills’ long-awaited new album, Silver Bullets.
Houses and Homes:
Briar March on A Place to Call Home
December 14, 2015
Filmmaker Briar March talks about the creative and collaborative process behind her three-year project to document opposing housing projects in Glen Innes and Northland.
A Slut for Beauty:
An Interview with Sarah Jane Barnett
October 22, 2015
Inside Sarah Jane Barnett’s remarkable new book of poems, WORK.
Anna Smaill on The Chimes
September 15, 2015
On the eve of this year’s Man Booker Prize shortlist announcement, nominee Anna Smaill talks in-depth about her captivating debut novel, The Chimes.
On Literary Pilgrimage
August 28, 2015
An account of living and writing in residence at Orlando’s Jack Kerouac House.
Patricia Highsmith—Adaptations
June 5, 2015
A closer look at the screen iterations of Patricia Highsmith’s classic anti-hero, Tom Ripley.
To describe with intense clarity
May 25, 2015
The Auckland Writers Festival refracted through a dialogue with Haruki Murakami interviewer John Freeman.
“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.
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.
Harun Farocki: Three films,
plus Beatriz’s War
December 4, 2014
Celebrating the late, great German media artist, critic, editor, and curator; plus, notes on East Timor’s first ever feature film.
Interstellar: an introspection on fatherhood
November 13, 2014
Christopher Nolan’s love for the mosaic and manifold takes a step back in his new film, an empathetic study of human emotions and relationships.
The long, friendly shadow of My Neighbor Totoro
November 4, 2014
On the lineage and legacy of Hayao Miyazaki’s most enduring film. Plus, Isao Takahata and a new Studio Ghibli showcase.
Power Structures:
Leviathan, Winter Sleep
August 9, 2014
At the New Zealand International Film Festival: two imposing Cannes winners explore the struggle between family, state and religion.
The Documentarian: An Interview with Frederick Wiseman
July 23, 2014
Cinema’s preeminent documentary filmmaker on his two latest triumphs, At Berkeley and National Gallery.
FEMEN and Me:
An Interview with Kitty Green
June 25, 2014
The director of Ukraine is Not a Brothel on befriending the founders of the radical Feminist protest group, the dangerous ego of their former leader, and getting in touch with the Slavic soul.
Documentary Realities:
Screen Edge Forum 2014
June 25, 2014
Talking China co-productions, our obsession with time, pop culture/zombies, fiction vs. reality, and the future of radio at the annual Screen Edge Forum.
Conversations: The Tone of Things
June 19, 2014
DOUG DILLAMAN and TIM WONG talk Jake the movie, scriptwriting as a means to an end, collaboration vs. authorship, and finding the right tone.