Events Archive

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

Sriwhana Spong: a hook but no fish

Two short films selected with exhibiting artist Sriwhana Spong.

Gretchen Albrecht: Reflections

A close look at abstract painter Gretchen Albrecht.

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

8th New Zealand Deaf Short Film Festival

Six short films written, produced, directed and played by the Deaf community of New Zealand.

Curator tour - Len Lye: Heaven and Earth

Explore Len Lye’s works through their connections to the natural world.

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.

Broke

A disgraced sports star and gambling addict attempts to turn his life around with the support of his number one fan.

Lucky

A 90-year-old atheist has outlived and out-smoked his contemporaries, and as he comes to terms with his own mortality, he searches for ever-elusive enlightenment.

Muka Youth Prints 2017

The annual exhibition of Muka Studio lithographs for kids

[CENSORED]

Melbourne archivist and filmmaker Sari Braithwaite’s provocative documentary is stitched together entirely from film footage cut by Australian censors.

Sense Art

Join us for a tour for people with vision impairments.

Young Visionaries Ages 9-13 Term 3

Join our weekly after-school art classes and be inspired by great art

Classic Kiwi Cinema Series: Vigil

New Zealand filmmaker Vincent Ward's exploration of isolation and human experience at its most reduced, primeval level

Family Art

Drop-in interactive art-making sessions for the whole family

Golden shade

Trace shadows and silhouettes from under The Golden Bearing into mini golden paintings.

Monica Brewster Evening - Hayden Chisholm

Hayden Chisholm, saxophonist, composer and multi-instrumentalist performs and presents his new short films

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.

MINI-SIZED SQUARE EYES: ANIMATION FOR KIDS

Each day of the school holidays we screen films especially for kids.

Trafic

A classic farce with Tati’s bumbling Monsieur Hulot, taking to Paris’ highways on a high-tech road trip

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.

Projection Series #3: Syncopated Cinema

Short experimental films by Mary Ellen-Bute, Oskar Fischinger, Jordan Belson, Evelyn Lambert, Len Lye and Norman McLaren.

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.

Notes to Eternity

The Director Sarah Cordery will introduce and host a Q+A following this screening

German Film Festival 2018

Eleven films selected by the Goethe-Institut from Germany, Austria and Switzerland

April 2017 School Holiday Art

Pick a morning or afternoon session Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday, Apr 19-28, or join them all.

Artist talk - Jim Speers

Exhibiting artist Jim Speers talks about his installation and intros his short film

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.

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.

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.

Monica Brewster Evening - Geoffrey Batchen

Geoffrey Batchen is a world-renown photography historian. He'll talk about aspects of the Emanations exhibition.

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.