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The arts with moving parts! Mercury Lane is a story-driven arts series that features a rather radical 'front-person free' approach, offering a cluster of short documentaries, poetry and musical performances each week. Reporters (Kim Webby, Sam Hunt, Chris Knox, Colin Hogg and Marcus Lush) occasionally lurk round the edges, serving the stories, but Mercury Lane's tack is to put the artists themselves in the middle of the picture, exploring what makes them tick as much as what makes their art click.

  • 1Bill Sevesi: Man of Steel Article on Bill Sevesi, 79 year old steel guitar player from Tonga - an archavist and producer of Polynesian music. Interviews: John Bercich, Bert Penny, Vika Jeffs, Buddy Wilson, Marion Store, Margaret Wilson, Jim Molberg, Tania Jeffs, John Hewitt, John Merrogh, Mike McCarthy, Sione Aleki, Sefita Haouli.

    • Start 0 : 00 : 00
    • Finish 0 : 32 : 32
    • Duration 32 : 32
    Live Broadcast
    • No
    Commercials
    • No

  • 2Learning To Fly Article on CicroArts, a Christchurch circus school. Interviews: Alex Schukin, Pieta Clear, David Spence, Nicholas Creech, Jeff Deveaux, Olivia Ricken, Jenny Ritchie, Damien Gordon, Irene Goed, Chris Carrow.

    • Start 0 : 33 : 38
    • Finish 0 : 44 : 14
    • Duration 10 : 36
    Contributors
    • Roz Mason (Director)
    Live Broadcast
    • No
    Commercials
    • No

  • 3Poet's Corner Sonja Yelich reads Teeth.

    • Start 0 : 45 : 12
    Contributors
    • Fiona Samuel (Director)
    Live Broadcast
    • No
    Commercials
    • No
Primary Title
  • Mercury Lane
Date Broadcast
  • Tuesday 14 April 2009
Start Time
  • 08 : 30
Finish Time
  • 09 : 20
Duration
  • 50:00
Series
  • 2
Episode
  • 1
Channel
  • TVNZ 6
Broadcaster
  • Television New Zealand
Programme Description
  • The arts with moving parts! Mercury Lane is a story-driven arts series that features a rather radical 'front-person free' approach, offering a cluster of short documentaries, poetry and musical performances each week. Reporters (Kim Webby, Sam Hunt, Chris Knox, Colin Hogg and Marcus Lush) occasionally lurk round the edges, serving the stories, but Mercury Lane's tack is to put the artists themselves in the middle of the picture, exploring what makes them tick as much as what makes their art click.
Classification
  • Unknown
Owning Collection
  • Television Vault
Broadcast Platform
  • Television
Languages
  • English
Captions
Live Broadcast
  • No
Rights Statement
  • Made for the University of Auckland's educational use as permitted by the Screenrights Licensing Agreement.
Subjects
  • Documentary
  • Arts
Contributors
  • Fiona Samuel (Director)
  • Roz Mason (Director)
Subjects
  • Documentary
  • Arts
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