Interview and studio visit with performance artist Philip Dadson.

Interview and studio visit with artist Jim Allen.

This documentary provides a look at the life and times of Mexico's most famous woman painter, Frida Kahlo. This film portrays the artist's life in the famous "Blue House" outside of Mexico City that she shared with her husband, the famous muralist and painter Diego Rivera. A near fatal bus accident, years of traumatic surgery, and endless heartache left Frida Kahlo devastated, relentlessly transferring her physical and emotional pain to the canvas. Readings from her diaries, archival photographs, and film footage offer an intimate portrait. Narrated by Sada Thompson and commentary written by Hayden Herrera, this documentary explores Kahlo as the center of the Mexican renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s. Not just as an artist, but as a tragic figure as it follows her painting career, her growing interest in politics and her turbulent relationship with her husband, Diego.

Demonstration of Tongan tapa making by the Kahoa Tauleva Trust at Auckland City Art Gallery, January 1985. Produced by AVRT: Artwork Video Resource Team, a project of the Auckland City Council, The Northern Regional Arts Council, The Labour Department.

Profile of artist Fatu Feu'u. Produced by Justine Simei-Barton as part of a Diploma in Broadcast Communication and Production for the University of Auckland in 1990. Includes interviews with Hamish Keith, art consultant for the Aotea Centre, and Dr Roger Green, Anthropology Department, University of Auckland.

In an unnamed subdivision in Auckland, the residents of a newly created street discuss the problems and advantages of life lived in such a suburban environment.

NZ feminist documentary from 1977. It is a reflection of the female gendered socio-economic times of post-1950s New Zealand. I Want To Be Joan was made through editing conversations with women who attended the United Women’s Convention in Christchurch in 1977. It was a venture of involvement, and its creation has become a significant experience in many women’s lives. The purpose in making the film was to document the reality of women’s oppression, and to use that as a basis for discussion. There are examples of fine art from painters, Jacqueline Fahey, Robin White, and Lynne Zylstra, and Rachel McAlpine reads her poem, This is me Sheila. The six interviewees in the film were selected from twenty-two original interviews.

A discussion about painting and carving in New Zealand, and how these forms of art making have impacted on New Zealand's cultural identity. This film is based on W.L. Renwick's paper 'Emblems of Identity: Painting, Carving and Maori-Pakeha Understanding', which was originally delivered as a keynote lecture to an international educational congress in Adelaide in 1978. It is narrated by actor Grant Tilly, accompanied by the same images used to illustrate Renwick's lecture. An accompanying booklet for the film is available online: https://www.victoria.ac.nz/stout-centre/research-units/towru/publications/Emblems-of-Identity.pdf

Recording of the stage production "The Reason For Breakfast", performed by The Front Lawn at the Court Theatre in Wellington, 1986. it was performed as part of the International Arts Festival. Don McGlashan later described The Reason for Breakfast as "a piece about forgetting the simplest ritual, about how terrible losing that flimsy fabric that makes us human might be if we were to forget it. It's also about what happens in a place like New Zealand where kids can grow up in an absence of ritual, an absence of behaviour that has meaning in other parts of the world."

Teuane Tibbo, who began painting at the age of 69, was one of the earliest Pacific painters recognised by New Zealand’s mainstream art scene. Her work was influential in the 1960s and early 1970s. Tibbo grew up in Samoa. She lived in Fiji with her second husband, and with her family (which included eight children) moved to New Zealand in her 40s. This video features Tibbo talking about her artworks, and was likely made in 1973.

Rangimarie Hetet and her daughter, Rangituatahi Te Kanawa, of Ngāti Maniapoto, talk to Tilly Reedy and demonstrate their skills as they gather and prepare harakeke for work on piupiu, korowai and tāniko border. Other women are instructed in the weaver's craft. Rangimarie and Rangituatahi discuss the innovations and changes which have influenced their art.

Footage of the Cover to Cover Bookworks Exhibition by the Association of Women Artists at the Outreach Cultural Centre from October 1st to 12th 1990. Video made by Claudia Pond Eyley. The following text is from the foreword of the exhibition notes, written by Claudia Pond Eyley and Beth Serjeant - "This exhibition of bookworks, the second to be mounted by the Association of Women Artists, is an indication of the growing interest in New Zealand of this expanding field. As seems to be happening internationally the books themselves are constantly exploring new ways of communicating, sharing and storing ideas/concepts, meshing media too. This year we have an increasing number of book objects to tease, taunt and test those who are prepared to spend time to browse through the exhibits. A hands on policy is the best way to view books, we ask you to please wear the gloves provided and to treat each volume gently - after all "Books mirror people!" (Slivca)" Artists in the show include: Caroline Bensinger, Joan Buller, Barbara De Mora, Val Cuthbert, Zena Abbott, Chris Massey, Claudia Pond Eyley, Adrienne Rewi, Dawn Pearce, Pamela Brooks Corbett, Maggie Taylor, Virginia King, Elizabeth Steiner, Lesley Kaiser, Sandra Morris, Berwyn Hartley, Kowhai Intermediate School Tamsin/Gil Hanly, Julie Ryan, Nicola Shanley-Nest, Catharina Kenkel, Daniella Aleh, Joan Travaglia, Lola W. Badman, Christine Hellyer, Helen Schamroth, Hilary Kerrop, Sylvia Siddell, Janette Craig, Maureen Zandorigo, Rachel Butler, Catherine Crooks, Charlotte Fisher, Carole Shepheard, Elizabeth Serjeant, Jude graveson, Jill Godwin, Donna Campbell, Chiara Corbelletto, Emily Siddell.

This National Film Unit documentary records the 18-month-long building process of a waka taua (war canoe): from the felling of the trees — opening with an awe-inspiring shot of the giant totara selected by master carver Piri Poutapu — to the ceremonial launch. The waka was commissioned by Māori Queen, Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu, and built at Tūrangawaewae Marae. The Harry Dansey-narrated film was significant in showing the importance of the canoe-building kaupapa alongside the everyday lives of the workers (at the freezing works, the pub).

Recording of Christine Hellyar delivering a seminar in 1990 at the University of Auckland on women in art. She discusses Louise Bourgeois, Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali and Eva Hesse.

The enormous significance to Māori of marae, as places of belonging where ritual and culture can be preserved, is explored in this Pita Turei-directed documentary. Made in conjunction with the NZ Historic Places Trust, it chronicles the programme to restore marae buildings and taonga around the country — and the challenge of maintaining the tribal heritages expressed in them. As well as visiting some of NZ's oldest marae, one of the newest also features — Tapu Te Ranga, in Wellington’s Island Bay, which is being built from recycled demolition wood.

Juliet Batten talks to Priscilla Pitts about The Menstrual Maze, a women's collaborative art environment Juliet initiated and facilitated in Auckland, June 1983. The project was supported by the Northern Regional Arts Council. The artists involved were Juliet Batten, Katrina Berntsen, Susan Clark-Mabee, Juliet Cooke, Lidija Cukor, Rose Fidler, Claire Johnstone, Janice Jones, Gill Matthewson, Helen Pollock, and Helen Todd. This video was produced in November 1983.

Agenda https://www.victoria.ac.nz/stout-centre/about/publications/ANC-Centenary-Conference-programme-.pdf

Agenda https://www.victoria.ac.nz/stout-centre/about/publications/ANC-Centenary-Conference-programme-.pdf

Agenda https://www.victoria.ac.nz/stout-centre/about/publications/ANC-Centenary-Conference-programme-.pdf

Agenda https://www.victoria.ac.nz/stout-centre/about/publications/ANC-Centenary-Conference-programme-.pdf

Awards Ceremony for National Orders, Republic of South Africa with Trevor Richards receiving the Order of the Companion of O.R. Tambo (Gold).

This was recorded as a message for the New Zealand Nelson Mandela Trust. He talks about his world tour and the subject, "Confronting the past and creating the future: the road to truth healing and reconciliation in South Africa".

A video resource, developed in the late 1990s, accompanies the national curriculum statement for technology for Maori medium learning in primary and secondary schools: Hangarau i roto i te marautanga o Aotearoa.

A compilation of news items on the day of Nelson Mandela's Inauguration

Naudé Steyn I/V with Linda Clark on his new Appointment as SA Ambassador to Australia and NZ. 13 April 1994. Also on VA_02987_02 Michael Beurk - Documentary on Nelson Mandela. BBC Panorama 11/04/1994

This screened at the Auckland Domain during the 1995 Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Auckland, 10 - 13 November 1995.

Video of a memorial exhibition of Paul Beadle's work with speeches by Selwyn Muru, Nicolas Tarling, Michael Dunn, Marte Szirmay and Betty Beadle. Camera by Robert Ellis.

A collection of stories from fishing, commercial and scientific people living near three marine reserves in Northland, New Zealand. The first 'no-take' marine reserve was established more than 35 years ago, and the stories here document first hand the changing attitudes over the years. We hear from fishers, tourist operators, scientists and rangers about why these reserves were set up and how the local communities reacted - and adapted - to them. We hear about the economic, social, recreational, scientific and ecological benefits of marine reserves. And we hear about some of the management issues facing marine reserves and their communities.

Modern society sits at the intersection of two crucial questions: What does it mean when artificial intelligence increasingly governs our liberties? And what are the consequences for the people AI is biased against? When MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini discovers that many facial recognition technologies do not accurately detect darker-skinned faces or classify the faces of women, she delves into an investigation of widespread bias in algorithms. As it turns out, artificial intelligence is not neutral, and women are leading the charge to ensure our civil rights are protected.

Student made documentary on teenage pregnancy in New Zealand. Made under the guidance of famous British documentarian Peter Watkins.

Examines economics professor and Clinton Administration cabinet member Robert Reich's crusade to expose the problem of income inequality in the United States.

In pre-1911 revolution China, a widow is forced into marriage by her mother-in-law, then is widowed again. The young woman, widowed twice, is seen as a bearer of bad luck and becomes a social outcast, ultimately driven out of the house of her employer at the new year, after which she dies as the result. Based on the short story by the Chinese author Lu Xun.

A girl waiting for the result of a medical examination wanders around Paris thinking she has cancer.

An affectionate spoof of the turmoil that afflicted the motion picture industry in the late 1920s during the change over from silent films to sound.

After witnessing the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, two unemployed musicians disguise themselves as women and join an all-female band in order to evade the Mafia.

The Body as Archive is a documentary film based on research that considers ways in which the dancer's body can be regarded as archive. A few hypotheses are intended as a frame of its research; is the body of a dancer only a repository of forms of usage? Dancers create, accumulate and carry knowledge - where is it stored and what do they explore through their practice? Is it possible to locate kinetic knowledge and understand its connection between subjective vision and objective realisation? How do cultural and social contexts reflect in the body of a dancer? The Body as Archive explores the role of dancer in the preservation of collective knowledge, its transmission and its accessibility.

When Algernon discovers that his friend, Ernest, has created a fictional brother for whenever he needs a reason to escape dull country life, Algernon poses as the brother, resulting in ever increasing confusion.

Inspired by Boccaccio's novellas, each of the four Boccaccio '70 segments focus on sex, love and seduction in Italy's 1960s, an era of economic growth and major cultural changes. In Renzo e Luciana (Renzo and Luciana) a young couple tries to hide their marriage and the wife’s supposed pregnancy from the draconian rules at their place of employment, which has banned female employees from getting married and having children. Their efforts – both at their shared home (having temporarily moved into her family's crowded apartment), and at work (where they go so far as to pretend not to know each other) – causes pressure to mount on the couple. Their hope is to make it through until they have managed to save some money to move out, and are dependent on Renzo going to night school to become an accountant.

Examines a patient's gait, covering such topics as normal gait cycle and abnornal gait patterns.

A record of the creation of Gisborne's 'Young Nick' statue, erected in 1969 to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Captain Cook's landing. Artist Frank Szirmay provides most of the commentary in the film.

Film of an installation/performance project at Te Henga, near Auckland, on May 12, 1985.

A film produced for the exhibition 'l'Espace Electra' on expatriate New Zealand artist Bill Culbert.

A video based on a play written by Campbell Smith to accompany the exhibition 'Frances Hodgkins, Later Works', held at the Waikato Museum of Art and History | Te Whare Taonga o Waikato in August/September 1997.