The moving tribute and 2009 television documentary Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak was directed by Spike Jonze and Lance Bangs, and combines photos, illustrations and interviews to give an intimate glimpse into the beloved children’s author.
Join Dr Xuelin Zhou (Senior Lecturer, School of Film, Television and Media Studies, University of Auckland) for an illustrated lecture on the representation of women in Chinese film.
Join Dr Xuelin Zhou (Senior Lecturer, School of Film, Television and Media Studies, University of Auckland) for an illustrated lecture on the representation of women in Chinese film.
He Whakaputanga/The Declaration of Independence, signed between 1835 and 1839, was a powerful assertion of mana and rangatiratanga. It was followed in 1840 by Te Tiriti o Waitangi/the Treaty of Waitangi, signed in 1840 by 540 rangatira around the country. Talking with Mihingarangi Forbes, Dr Aroha Harris, Dame Claudia Orange and Morgan Godfery discuss the significance of these two New Zealand documents – and the people who signed them.
A film based on the unpublished play El Plebiscito written by Antonio Skármeta portrays the historical moment when advertising tactics came to be widely used in political campaigns.
The online Sunday magazine e-Tangata tells Māori and Pasifika stories about people and issues of significance to all New Zealanders. The storytellers you’ll meet are Tapu Misa, Dale Husband, Moana Maniapoto, Māmari Stephens and Stacey Morrison. They’ll talk a little about e-Tangata and what they are working to achieve; and they are keen to hear what you would like to read in the future.
As Augusto Pinochet holds Chile in the grip of a dictatorship, a fifty-year-old man obsessed with John Travolta's character from Saturday Night Fever imitates his idol each weekend in a small bar on the outskirts of Santiago.
modular domestic furniture (powder coated steel and wood veneer), ornaments (wood, metal, glass, plastic and textile objects), television monitor, VHS player and video (single channel, standard definition, 4:3, colour, stereo sound)
inkjet prints on Perspex, aluminium wall mounts, Samsung televisions, Samsung television base, Samsung television box, Metallica t-shirt, Metallica t-shirt box, ‘Save TVNZ7’ t-shirts, ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ television,‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ television remote, ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ television box, ‘Save TVNZ7’ documentary (single channel, high definition, 16:9, colour, stereo sound), animation (single channel, high definition, 16:9, colour, silent) packaged Disney “Pirates of the Caribbean” themed CRT tube television and remote, various fittings and cords for assembly
house model, cardboard, paint, found object (table), video sender, colour television, video cassette recorder, video (single channel, standard definition, 4:3, colour, stereo sound)
Size (h x w)
1180 x 1840 x 615 mm
Credit line
Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2001
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