Overview
Auckland Art Gallery is thrilled to be one of the venues for the
2012 New Zealand International Film Festival. Screenings will take
place in our auditorium on the lower ground level.
Please use the main entrance on Kitchener Street for screenings
between 10am and 5pm. After 5pm you can access the auditorium via
the clocktower entrance on the corner of Kitchener and Wellesley
Streets.
Box office opens 30 minutes before each session commences until
15 minutes after each session starts. Box office closed between
sessions.
SATURDAY 4 AUGUST
10.30am - Karen Blixen - Behind Her Mask
No polite literary memoir, director Morten Henriksen's portrait
of author Karen Blixen (Out of Africa) is drawn from the bitter
experience of his own father, Aage. Morten has bones to pick with
both of them. He was just ten years old when his father first told
him more than he wanted or needed to know about an intimate
relationship with the world-famous Blixen (also known by her pen
name Isak Dinesen).
Running time: 54 minutes
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information and book tickets here
12pm - Our Newspaper
The Russian city of Ulyanovsk is named for its most famous son,
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin. The town's official
newspaper is, of course, The Leninist. Exasperated by the
four-page state mouthpiece, journalist Andrei Shkolny has launched
an independent paper, produced on a computer in his lounge.
Running time: 58 minutes
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more information and book tickets here
1.45pm - Grandma Lo-fi: The Basement Tapes of Sigrídur
Níelsdóttir
Appropriately shot on Super-8 and replete with analogue special
effects (aka collages), this film introduces us to a legendary
little old lady of Icelandic music, Sigrídur Níelsdóttir. She had
made music all her life but never recorded any of it until her
children gave her a cassette recorder for her 71st birthday.
Running time: 62 minutes.
Screening with: Ato-Miss
Our robot friend Ato-Mick returns to save the world from losing
all its colour and introduces a new playmate: Ato-Miss.
Running time: 21 minutes
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and book tickets here
3.30pm - Our Newspaper
The Russian city of Ulyanovsk is named for its most famous son,
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin. The town's official
newspaper is, of course, The Leninist. Exasperated by the
four-page state mouthpiece, journalist Andrei Shkolny has launched
an independent paper, produced on a computer in his lounge.
Running time: 58 minutes
Get
more information and book tickets here
6pm - In My Mother's Arms
This urgent documentary takes us into Baghdad's most dangerous
neighbourhood, where one determined man has taken it upon himself
to rescue several dozen orphans from the dangers of the streets and
the brutal conditions of state-run orphanages.
Running time: 86 minutes.
Screening with: Two
Princes
Following the death of a beloved wife and mother, a father
struggles to connect with his preoccupied sons.
Running time: 15 minutes
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information and book tickets here
SUNDAY 5 AUGUST
11.15am - Karen Blixen - Behind Her Mask
No polite literary memoir, director Morten Henriksen's portrait
of author Karen Blixen (Out of Africa) is drawn from the bitter
experience of his own father, Aage. Morten has bones to pick with
both of them. He was just ten years old when his father first told
him more than he wanted or needed to know about an intimate
relationship with the world-famous Blixen (also known by her pen
name Isak Dinesen).
Running time: 54 minutes
Get more
information and book tickets here
1pm - The Artists' Cinema
The second annual Artists Cinema programme again asks
for a 'response, comment interruption and/ or reflection on the
cinema context'. Curated by Mark Williams, Alex Monteith and Jan
Bryant, this year's programme includes themes as diverse as today's
global political malaise, 'bogan' culture and what Wolfgang Iser
refers to the function of art: 'the subversion of the illusions on
which our perception is based'.
Running time: 58 minutes
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2.30pm - Into the Abyss
The abyss that commands Werner Herzog's attention in this year's
programme is a particularly American one, located where crime
awaits punishment on death row. The generous assistance of the
Goethe-Institut enables us to showcase the great German
documentarian's most recent feature as well as Death Row,
the powerful TV series he made alongside it.
Running time: 107 minutes
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6pm - Planet of Snail
The exquisitely gentle Planet of Snail, top prize
winner at the Amsterdam Documentary Festival, finds the
inspirational in the everyday. This patient, immersive and
appropriately tactile film follows the daily routine of a
deaf-blind man, Cho Young-chan, who lives in a small Korean town
with his tiny wife, Soon-ho. Despite his dependence on his 'shadow
friend', he lives a life of quiet determination and considerable
accomplishment.
Running time: 87 minutes
Screening with: Shakuhachi
A poetic documentary about a blind man whose craft transcends
his perceived disabilities.
Running time: 14 minutes
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book tickets here