With some help from Perendale Productions we made a short video to embody just some of the events and people through history who have defined us and made their mark on our world.

http://youtu.be/cuqhDveu88g

New Zealand Story contains references to over 30 people and events in our history that collectively and individually embody the best of the New Zealand character. It touches on just some of those who have defined our country, its spirit and our historical tendency to overachieve in way that is uniquely kiwi. Now is a time when there seems to be an increasing conversation about what we stand for as a nation, and what values we choose to guide us forward.

As the year comes to an end, we hope this video will also make you feel happy and proud and prompt us all to reflect on the sort of country we want to?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYRBAdvGN88

The screening room for all the films is here: http://lastoceanscreeningroom.co.nz/

First in a series looking at computers and society.

Quirky, disjointed (?) but a great story.

[http://www.youtube.com/playlist?p=77D6D10A772D1B6B]

Day 1:
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ8brWbm2Do]

(Sorry, not sure how embedding works here ... )

A short spoof video that underlines one of the many ways that Fonterra recklessly drives productivity at any cost.

On youtube

In song

Tuhoe, History of Resistance (1 hour documentary, on google video)

Nitro Media's entry for the 48Hours contest.

Made by myself, several of the Cactuslab boys, and a bunch of our friends as part of the 48hours short film comp a few weeks ago.

Perhaps a week or 2 after the fact, but here's what you really needed to know. From John Clarke and Bryan Dawe.

Chris Laidlaw & guests very respectfully discussing how we should teach creation in schools.

Deals with the philosophy & importance of science, as much as it does with spirituality.

Warning: This program is not middle-aged men talking about their salad days, nor people shouting at each, as I'd expected.

And it's a really good listen.

My breakthrough discoveries about DNA Translation,Big Bang Theory,Small Seed Theory,The Lazer Tech Translation,Trap Technology,Basketball Translation...doing the rigth thing everyday...nanosecond........for a better and a healthier world ahead.

From the New Zealand Book Council. Fantastic animation.

Does it promote the National Party?

Anyone have a view?

via Family Guy's Emmy campaign.

They're not even from here, man.

From the producer of The World's First Split Enz AMV, comes this entry for the Wellington Armageddon 2009 AMV contest.

A whole band full of the kind of people your mother warned you about.

From Dropa Kulcha in 1981. Can anyone name the host?

Radio NZ clip (mp3, 3mins 36sec) regarding NIWA research that attempted to determine the importance of the Kaipara as a fish nursery.

The result is a little surprising.

From Australia's National Radio, a 6 min podcast regarding nuclear disarmament under the Obama regime.

RadioNZ interview with fish ecologist Andy Hicks, who has recently completed a research project on the lifecycle of whitebait.

The interview focuses more on the scientific than the cultural, but if you're into whitebait, it's probably an interesting listen.

hey everyone,

just wondering if anyone might know of a place one could view NZ short films online? i'm in Germany and have been telling a number of (cynical/dark/Russian) friends about the beautiful cynical darkness of NZ short cinema, and i'd love to share the love, but it's nigh on impossible to find any content online.

any recommendations? is there a good torrent tracker for NZ related media?

Not true, but some on the most retarded youtube comments I've ever stumbled upon.

I can recall listening to John Clarke on National Radio a couple of years ago, talking in the beautifully flat & distinctive tone that he possesses, about his enjoyment in listening to poetry. I think he cited the improved sense of timing it provided, over reading a poem yourself, well at least the first couple of times, as his justification for this. Mr Clarke seems to raise subject of timing & rhythm in his interviews quite frequently, as it seems his instincts on this matter are a cut above, as a more recent National Radio interview on the occasion of his 60th in 2008 demonstrates.

The ABC in Australia have a few good links for his more recent, though Australian-centric work available, though I'd suggest this in particular being one of a series in which John plays a politician (on this occasion John Howard) sitting down with the Headmaster, or Dean to discuss his performance at school.

I agree with Mr Clarke on the subject of timing, though I also enjoy listening to content, as it best directs the process of determining tone, to the parts of the body best tasked with assessing tone, being ears and reduces the amount of?

Noelle conducting a rather free flowing interview/word association session with Sam Hunt regarding what he's up to, including a collaboration with that rather scruffy looking Dunedin-ite, David Kilgour, a book and guest spotting for Leonard Cohen.

Rockin' at Sammy's.

The audio is a little ropey, but this version of 'Point That Thing Somewhere Else' fairly bristles.