Two decades on from Sam Neill’s Cinema of Unease, Tim Wong’s essay film contemplates the prevailing image of a national cinema while privileging some of the images and image-makers displaced by the popular view of filmmaking in Aotearoa. Free to view at: lumiere.net.nz/films

Koyaanisqatsi
1983
7.9/10

In the Realms of the Unreal
2004
7.2/10

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
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7.8/10

McQueen
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7.4/10

Chronos
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7.5/10

Baraka
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8.2/10

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7.8/10

Naqoyqatsi
2002
6.2/10

Samsara
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8.1/10

Room 237
2012
6.1/10

Cameraperson
2016
6.7/10

Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience
2016
6.9/10

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7.0/10

Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
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6.9/10

Seduced and Abandoned
2013
6.2/10

Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story
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6.2/10

A Toxic Love Story
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6.4/10

14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible
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7.3/10

Capital in the Twenty-First Century
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6.5/10

Embrace the Panda: Making Turning Red
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6.8/10
Moving Memories
2024
0/10