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Neil Young: Harvest Time

Thu 1 Dec 2022. 7—9:15PM

Created in 1971, this docu-film takes us on an intimate journey inside the Harvest album, with never-before-seen performance and rehearsal footage.
In addition to the film, this screening event includes an introduction by Neil Young, recorded exclusively for movie theatre audiences. Hear Neil highlight the significance of Harvest, 50 years after its release, and how the recording of the album and the movie came together.

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Bones and All

Thu 1 Dec 2022. 4—6:15PM

Bones and All is a 2022 coming-of-age romantic cannibal road film directed by Luca Guadagnino from a screenplay by David Kajganich, based on the 2015 novel of the same name by Camille DeAngelis.

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Heimat is a Space in Time

Sun 27 Nov 2022. 2—5:40PM

In this immersive film essay, master documentary filmmaker Thomas Heise dives into four generations of his own family archives to trace the profound cultural and political upheaval of Germany's last century

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The Night of the 12th

Thu 24 Nov 2022. 7—9PM

It is said that every investigator has a crime that haunts them, a case that hurts him more than the others, without him necessarily knowing why. For Yohan that case is the murder of Clara.

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A Taste of Hunger

Thu 24 Nov 2022. 10:30AM—12:20PM

A power couple within the Danish gourmet scene run the popular restaurant Malus in Copenhagen. The couple is willing to sacrifice everything to achieve their dream -- getting the coveted Michelin star.

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The Drovers Wife | The Legend of Molly Johnson

Tue 22 Nov 2022. 6—9PM

Leah Purcell writes, directs and stars in this highly anticipated adaptation of her award-winning play and novel – a vivid reckoning with Australia's colonial history through the tale of one woman's resilience.

Join us after the screening for an exclusive Q & A session with Leah and Libby Hakaraia from the Māoriland Film Festival.

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The Drovers Wife | The Legend of Molly Johnson

Tue 22 Nov 2022. 6—9PM

Leah Purcell writes, directs and stars in this highly anticipated adaptation of her award-winning play and novel – a vivid reckoning with Australia's colonial history through the tale of one woman's resilience.

Join us after the screening for an exclusive Q & A session with Leah and Libby Hakaraia from the Māoriland Film Festival.

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When the Wind Blows

Sat 19 Nov 2022. 3—5:10PM

A naive elderly British rural couple survive the initial onslaught of a nuclear war.

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Pretty Good for the 21st Century: The Collectible Len Lye

Sat 19 Nov 2022. 3—4PM

Inspired by the historical challenges of collecting kinetic sculpture and moving image art works, the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery’s Len Lye curator, Paul Brobbel, leads a discussion around the contemporary collectability of Len Lye.

In conversation with Kelly Carmichael, director of Starkwhite Queenstown, Paul will consider the position of Lye’s “art that moves” in both institutional and private collections, the challenges of collecting “difficult” art and the place of the collector in Lye’s 21st Century vision.

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Experimental Cyanotype Workshop

Sat 19 Nov 2022. 1—4PM

Drawing inspiration from Len Lye’s photograms – as seen in Atomic Power – this workshop will guide you through the process of making your own cyanotype photographic prints.

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Working the System

Fri 18 Nov 2022. 3—4PM

Conversations around equity, sustainability and the ongoing precarity faced by artists have acquired a new urgency in the past two years, as the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated already existing difficulties of navigating art’s ecosystem.

This talk is an opportunity to hear from individuals who have experimented with models for working differently, against, within and to the side of art’s infrastructures. Having developed projects guided by their own values and committed to foregrounding artists’ voices, we ask: how have you made it work, and what have you learned along the way?

Join Zara Stanhope in conversation with Ruth Buchanan, Melanie Tangaere Baldwin, Daniel John Corbett Sanders and Dane Mitchell.

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Emily

Thu 17 Nov 2022. 4—6:15PM

Emily imagines the transformative, exhilarating, and uplifting journey to womanhood of a rebel and a misfit, one of the world's most famous, enigmatic, and provocative writers.

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Contemporary Art for our Time: Creating Works of Significance

Thu 17 Nov 2022. 3—4PM

Artworks of significance and scale take time and resource to create.

Join Govett-Brewster Art Gallery’s Assistant Curator Contemporary Māori Art, Taarati Taiaroa, with artists and curators to hear about the genesis and unseen process to realise several major works including the important role of benefactors and collectors can play along the way.

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Hopper - An American love story

Thu 17 Nov 2022. 10:30AM—12:05PM

Hopper’s work is the most recognizable art in America – popular, praised, and mysterious. Countless painters, photographers, filmmakers and musicians have been influenced by his art – but who was he, and how did a struggling illustrator create such a bounty of notable work?

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Toi Mā Te Whānau

Sundays 10:30am-12:30pm

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

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The Back of The Painting

Sat 12 Nov 2022. 10:30—11:30AM

Join Sarah Hillary (Principal Conservator at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki) and Len Lye Curator Paul Brobbel, in conversation about the hidden stories behind paintings - ranging from fourteenth-century artworks, to Len Lye.

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Govett-Brewster Seniors

Fri 11 Nov 2022. 10:30AM—12:10PM

Talks for older people keen for a regular dose of art and culture.

Join us for free-flowing conversations and experiences of contemporary art inside the current exhibitions. No knowledge of art is needed!

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Mister Organ

Fri 11 Nov 2022. 10:30AM—12:10PM

Journalist David Farrier is drawn into a game of cat and mouse with a mysterious individual. Delving deeper he unearths a trail of court cases, royal bloodlines and ruined lives, in this true story of psychological warfare.

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Young Visionaries: Ages 6-8 Term 4

Wednesdays 19 Oct - 14 Dec

Weekly after school art classes where kids are inspired by great art.

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We Make Antiques! | 嘘八百

Sun 6 Nov 2022. 2—3:40PM

Masaharu Take, director of "100 Yen Love," winner of the 2016 Japan Academy Prize for Best Picture and Best Screenplay, delivers a comedy film about a battle between cons and an antique authenticator.

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Okko's Inn | 若女将は小学生

Sun 6 Nov 2022. 12—1:40PM

After losing her parents in a car accident, Okko starts living in the countryside with her grandmother who runs a traditional Japanese inn. While she prepares to be the next owner of the inn, Okko can somehow see friendly ghosts.

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A Long Goodbye | 長いお別れ

Sat 5 Nov 2022. 4:55—7:05PM

A story spanning seven years of a “long goodbye” with a father who slowly loses his memory.

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Cinematic Liars of Asahi-za | 浜の朝日の嘘つきども

Sat 5 Nov 2022. 2:40—4:35PM

Centering around a real-life movie theatre in Minamisoma, with a touch of comedy, this human drama follows the suffering and rebirth of people who are drawn to the Asahiza cinema.

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The Lone Ume Tree | 梅切らぬバカ

Sat 5 Nov 2022. 1—2:20PM

Tamako lives with her 50-year-old son, Tadao who has autism. Every morning, they wake up, eat breakfast, and leave the house at same time. They have a large ume tree in their small garden, but branches sticking out over the sidewalk have caused complaints from their neighbours.

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Tātarakihi: The Children of Parihaka - Screening, Kо̄rero and Kai

Sat 5 Nov 2022. 10:30AM—12:30PM

The Gallery screens Tātarakihi, The Children of Parihaka on 5 November every year to mark the day on which Crown forces invaded Parihaka.

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The Gardener

Thu 3 Nov 2022. 7—8:30PM

To celebrate the Centuria Taranaki Garden Festival, we are proud to host a special screening of this documentary directed by Sebastien Chabot about Frank Cabot's Les Quatre Vents, aka Cabot Garden, a magnificent private garden in the Charlevoix region near Quebec City.

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When the Cows Come Home

Thu 3 Nov 2022. 4—5:50PM

Costa Botes' gentle, yet eye-opening new documentary delves into bovine life on a Cambridge farm where offbeat cow whisperer Andrew Johnstone tends the herd in his own idiosyncratic ways.

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Munch: Love, Ghosts and Lady Vampires

Thu 3 Nov 2022. 10:30AM—12:05PM

There is no painter in the world both more famous and less known than Edvard Munch.
The debt contemporary culture has towards Munch is impressive, from Andy Warhol to Ingmar Bergman, from Marina Abramovich to Jasper Johns.

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Ulrike Ottinger - Die Nomadin vom See

Sun 30 Oct 2022. 3—4:35PM

A richly rewarding close-up of the woman director who, along with Margarethe von Trotta and Helke Sander, helped launch New German Cinema on world screens.

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Show Me Shorts Film Festival 2022

Thu 27 Oct 2022. 7:30—9:35PM

The Lye Cinema is proud to welcome the Show Me Shorts film festival back to New Plymouth, the festival is Aotearoa New Zealand’s leading international short film festival. It is a competitive Academy Awards-accredited festival that screens in more than 30 cinemas nationwide.

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Young Visionaries: Ages 9-12. Term 4

Thursdays 20 Oct - 15 Dec

Weekly after school art classes where kids are inspired by great art.

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Monica Brewster Evening: Mikaela Nyman

Tue 25 Oct 2022. 6—8PM

Join us for a Monica Brewster Evening with writer Mikaela Nyman, whose poetry, fiction and non-fiction has been widely published and anthologised in New Zealand and overseas.

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O Palhaço | The Clown

Mon 24 Oct 2022. 6—7:30PM

An unhappy clown dreams of leaving his father's circus and creating a more stable life with a permanent home and a family.

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Mataindios

Sun 23 Oct 2022. 6—7:20PM

Four villagers organize a festival in honor of the town's patron saint to end the pain caused by the disappearance of several of their relatives.

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Cosas Imposibles | Impossible Things

Sun 23 Oct 2022. 4—5:30PM

A widow who is tormented by the memory of her abusive husband befriends a young man.

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La Palabra de Pablo | Pablo's Word

Sun 23 Oct 2022. 2—3:30PM

Loosely inspired by Shakespeare's Othello, La Palabra de Pablo (Pablo's Word) tells the story of a broken contemporary Salvadorian upper middle class family - struggling with jealousy and revenge.

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Amucha

Sun 23 Oct 2022. 10:30—11:05AM

Based on a Mapuche epew (fable) Amucha is about the relationship between a grandfather, Ligkoyam, and his granddaughter, Alen.

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Yuli

Sat 22 Oct 2022. 6:30—8:30PM

Moving between fiction and reality, and harnessing the power of both drama and dance, Cuban ballet dancer and choreographer Carlos Acosta shares his life story, from a barely interested kid to one of the greats.

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Warmi Pachakutik - Tiempo de Mujeres | Time of Woman

Sat 22 Oct 2022. 4:30—5:30PM

Warmi Pachakutik is an approach to the creativity of a new generation of Kichwa women who, through their activism, generate changes and question the meaning of belonging, roles and thought.

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El Mayor | The Major

Sat 22 Oct 2022. 2—3:55PM

The story of Cuban revolutionary Ignacio Agramonte