An Oceanic Feeling is presented through a series of one-off screenings in the Len Lye Centre Cinema, with three works selected as a showcase in Gallery 1 and the Mezzanine.

Curated by Erika Balsom, the Govett-Brewster’s 2017 International Film Curator in Residence, An Oceanic Feeling challenges the Romantic myth of the ocean as a dark, monstrous void of unknowable depths, populated by alien creatures. Through a series of screenings of recent film from around the world, An Oceanic Feeling explores how the seas are thoroughly imbricated in human histories of colonialism, slavery, exploration and labour.

This projection series asks: what if we understood the ocean not as dividing us but as connecting us? What politics, what ethics, would follow?

Screening in Gallery 1 and the Mezzanine
Sat 4 Aug – Sun Nov 18 2018 

G. Anthony Svatek, .TV, 2017 (22 min.)
Filipa César and Louis Henderson, Sunstone, 2017 (40 min.)
Maddie Leach, The World Leaving, 2003 (12 min.)

Sat 4 Aug | 1 pm 
Philip Scheffner, Havarie, 2016. (93 min.)
Supported by Goethe-Institut NZ

Sat 8 Sep | 1 pm 
Introduced by exhibition curator Erika Balsom
Rebecca Meyers, Blue Mantle, 2010. (34 min.)
Francisco Rodriguez, Una Luna de Hierra, 2017. (29 min.)

Sat 29 Sep | 1 pm 
Peggy Ahwesh, The Blackest Sea, 2016. (10 min.)
Mati Diop, Atlantiques, 2009. (16 min.)
The Otolith Group, Hydra Decapita, 2010. (31 min.)

Sat 6 Oct | 1 pm 
Noël Burch and Alan Sekula, The Forgotten Space, 2012. (1:52 min.)

Sat 20 Oct | 1 pm 
CAMP, From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf, 2013. (83 min.)

Sat 10 Nov | 1 pm 
G. Antony Svatek, .TV, 2017. (22 min.)
Filipa Cesar and Louis Henderson, Sunstone, 2017. (40 min.)

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