GoGo Media’s new documentary, Gordon Crook: A Life of Art screens in Auckland this Saturday July 24th 4 p.m. at The Academy Theatre.
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Gordon & Clare on The Arts Show
Lynn Freeman interviewed Gordon and Clare on The Arts Show this week. Have a listen.
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Gordon Crook: A Life of Art in Film Festival
The launch of the International Film Festival this year has our new film about Wellington artist, Gordon Crook. The programme has just come out and our film will screen in four cities, Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin.
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Happy New Year!
Well, a new year with new challenges. We wrapped up 2009 with a number of video interviews from ANIMFX NZ which will be featured on GoGo Talks. See John Stephenson, animator and co-director of Kung Fu Panda on GoGo Talks.
I’ve been working on an educational video for NZPC which will update their current resources taking into account the legislative changes and rights of sex workers since law reform was passed. (Prostitution Reform Act, 2003). The documentary I directed (produced by Top Shelf Productions) about the sex industry (1994) is now available in full on the NZ On Screen site, so check it out,
A Double Standard.Glenis produced two directorial debut’s last year, Mokopuna, directed by Ainsley Gardiner (producer, Two Cars One Night) and
she also completed the directorial debut of a short film by Linda Niccol (scriptwriter, Garage Sale).We are in final stages of our documentary about Wellington artist, Gordon Crook, A Life of Art, along with a few other projects in research and development stage. So, 2010, bring it on!
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Editing
We are currently working on the edit for the documentary about Wellington artist, Gordon Crook.
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ANIMFX 09
ANIMFX is a fantastic conference held in Wellington every November featuring the latest and greatest of digital art, design and technology. Game developers, special fx gurus, producers and directors from all over the world gather to showcase their work and share ideas. Don’t miss it. You can see some of previous years’ speakers at GOGO TALKS.
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The Father of Design
Joe Sinel was a designer who coined the phrase ‘industrial design’. He came to San Francisco in the early 1900s and established himself as a freelance graphic designer and product designer working with some of the biggest advertising agencies in the country. His archive is held at the California College of Art & Design. We discovered some fantastic watercolours and other paintings he did while taking his ritual few months timeout in the desert in Sierra Nevada. We are in research and fund-raising mode now to make a documentary about this creative and inspiring designer. Continue…
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Wildriver 101 Film Festival, Eureka!
Glenis and I were invited to attend the Wildriver 101 Film Festival and screen our documentary about the NZ historian and biographer, Michael King: A Moment in Time.
It was an amazing journey up with Mary Cruse, through the Redwood Forest, otherwise known as ‘behind the redwood curtain’.
We went to Arcata yesterday where they had live music and pastel art on the pavement which was very cool. Also met up with a filmmaker from London, John Howarth, who had worked in New Zealand on The Lost Dinosaur – small world. The locals are ultra-friendly and we look forward to meeting local filmmakers throughout the week.
We stayed in this awesome house last night, The Carter House. Continue… -
RMB City Virtual Worlds
I saw a great exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery in London recently featuring the work of Chinese artist, Cao Fei : otherwise known as China Tracy in Second Life. Continue…
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Pop Culture Worlds: Pop Culture History
I did a presentation on the ‘revitalisation of pop music history through online spaces’ with a particular reference to NZ music at the International conference, Popular Music Worlds, Popular Music History in Liverpool in July 09.
Highlights for me: Rachel Devitt: American woman researching the music of burlesque and its influence on pop culture; and a guy in America who discovered women guitar designers who worked for Gibsons during the war. Continue…
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Globe Trotting for Pop Music
Clare is off to Liverpool tomorrow to give a paper at the Popular Music Worlds: Popular Music History conference in Liverpool.
Should be fun – staying in an old B & B that used to be The Beatles manager, Brian Epsteins house….
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Stanley’s Garden by Gordon Crook
Stanleys Garden exhibition by Gordon Crook at Gilberd Marriot gallery. 2010. Music performed and composed by Jeremy Cullen.
Mervyn Thompson: A Class Act
Thompson wrote the first play about the Women’s Suffrage Movement in New Zealand,
O Temperance, and many other works about working class life in New Zealand.
One Laptop per Child
Glenis Sam and I met with Barry Vercoe, Professor at the MIT Media Lab. He brought us our very own XO Lap top and we are beginning to collaborate and research a documentary based on his work in developing the ‘one laptop per child’ Continue…