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Goethe-Institut German Film Series: West
A woman escapes East Germany with her young son in the late 1970s, only to discover the same surveillance and suspicion that drove her from the East awaiting her in the West
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Sriwhana Spong: a hook but no fish
Two short films selected with exhibiting artist Sriwhana Spong.
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Gretchen Albrecht: Reflections
A close look at abstract painter Gretchen Albrecht.
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The British Council John Grierson Documentary Film Series - Holocaust: Night Will Fall
Researchers discover film footage from World War II that turns out to be a lost documentary shot by Alfred Hitchcock and Sidney Bernstein in 1945 about German concentration camps
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8th New Zealand Deaf Short Film Festival
Six short films written, produced, directed and played by the Deaf community of New Zealand.
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Curator tour - Len Lye: Heaven and Earth
Explore Len Lye’s works through their connections to the natural world.
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Latin America and Spain Film Festival 2017
The annual, free festival presents films from 11 nations this year
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The Man Who Fell to Earth
An alien arrives on Earth and quickly sets about creating enough wealth to allow him to return to his own world.
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Broke
A disgraced sports star and gambling addict attempts to turn his life around with the support of his number one fan.
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LASFF 2017 - Alba
A tender coming of age story.
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Muka Youth Prints 2017
The annual exhibition of Muka Studio lithographs for kids
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Sense Art
Join us for a tour for people with vision impairments.
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Young Visionaries Ages 9-13 Term 3
Join our weekly after-school art classes and be inspired by great art
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Classic Kiwi Cinema Series: Vigil
New Zealand filmmaker Vincent Ward's exploration of isolation and human experience at its most reduced, primeval level
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Golden shade
Trace shadows and silhouettes from under The Golden Bearing into mini golden paintings.
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Parihaka Anniversary Day
Join us for a day of remembrance
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Monica Brewster Evening - Hayden Chisholm
Hayden Chisholm, saxophonist, composer and multi-instrumentalist performs and presents his new short films
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Mahana
From the author of The Whale Rider, a tale of family rivalry and reconciliation, set against the stunning backdrop of rural New Zealand in the 1960’s.
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Trafic
A classic farce with Tati’s bumbling Monsieur Hulot, taking to Paris’ highways on a high-tech road trip
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City of Gold
A documentary portrait that takes us into Jonathan Gold’s universe to tell the improbable story of a revolution inspired by the pen, but driven by the palate.
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Projection Series #3: Syncopated Cinema
Short experimental films by Mary Ellen-Bute, Oskar Fischinger, Jordan Belson, Evelyn Lambert, Len Lye and Norman McLaren.
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Goethe Institut German Film Series: Concrete Love - The Böhm Family
Germany's most important architect, aged 94 works every day on construction projects with his sons Stephan, Peter and Paul.
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Notes to Eternity
The Director Sarah Cordery will introduce and host a Q+A following this screening
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April 2017 School Holiday Art
Pick a morning or afternoon session Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday, Apr 19-28, or join them all.
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Artist talk - Jim Speers
Exhibiting artist Jim Speers talks about his installation and intros his short film
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Where You're Meant to Be
When a Scottish indie pop artist decides to re-write his country's oldest songs, the only things standing in his way are an ageing folk singer and centuries of history.
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German Film Festival 2015 - The Bone Man
From Austria comes this celebrated, very black film version of Wolf Haas’ crime novel of the same name.
Recommended for all crime fi lm lovers with a sense of dark humour.
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Symposium - On an Island: Len Lye, Robert Graves and Laura Riding
The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery brings together scholars from New Zealand and Australia to expand upon the work and confluence of these influential Modernist figures.
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Monica Brewster Evening - Geoffrey Batchen
Geoffrey Batchen is a world-renown photography historian. He'll talk about aspects of the Emanations exhibition.
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NZIFF 2018 - The Price of Everything
How did the contemporary art market become so lucrative? In this hilarious and unnerving documentary filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn (My Architect) elicits revealing answers from buyers, sellers, critics and the artists themselves.
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Curator's Tour - Ruth Buchanan: The actual and its document
Join a Govett-Brewster curator for a tour of the exhibition Ruth Buchanan: The actual and its document
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NZIFF 2018 - The Wild Pear Tree
Turkish master Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s latest follows a would-be writer’s reluctant return to his small-town fold, spinning an extensive series of encounters into a typically rich, wry, melancholic mood-piece.
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Happy Moments with Paul Brobbel
Take a walk and talk with our Len Lye Curator through the current Len Lye exhibition.
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The Death of Stalin
Follows the Soviet dictator's last days and depicts the chaos of the regime after his death.
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October 2015 School Holiday Programme: 5-12 years old
Apologies for this session being sold out already. Get in quickly to book your children into the next sessions.
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January School Holiday Art 2017 - Wed, Thu, Fri afternoons
Drop in with your kids to make art that surprises and inspires
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Free Radicals: Cinema on the Wrong Side of the Tracks
Join Len Lye Curator Paul Brobbel for a tour of this new exhibition exploring modern and contemporary experimental cinema.
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The Last Waltz
Martin Scorsese’s legendary concert film documenting the final performance by Canadian-American rock group The Band
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Māori Language Week - Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori 2017
Join us for film screenings in the Len Lye Centre Cinema and waiata and Te Reo lessons in the gallery.
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Tom Who? The Enigma of Tom Kreisler
"He was known as the local art teacher and bohemian, the man of wild parties, but few local residents realised they had an extraordinary artist in their midst." - Shirley Horrocks