Hard News: NZ On Screen: The Christchurch Collection
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Also, just a note that we had planned to have a 10 minute excerpt of When A City Falls in the collection, but there’ll be a delay there. I’m hopeful it will be added in due course.
I'm very pleased I managed to get permission for our Media7 special to be there in full too.
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. . . the new, purpose-built stadium at QEII Park.
A few pics of the sad stadium in limbo.
On a slightly happier note, the Forfar Courts Council housing complex in St Albans uses recycled accommodation from the '74 games. Apart from a bit of liquefaction the relocatables are still in good nick.
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Hebe, in reply to
Christchurch's musical heritage has, indeed, suffered badly.
Beloved and I went and danced a little at Mollett Street not long ago. Even though the building was gone, the vibe was there.
That Media 7 was great; thanks I missed it on tv
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Russell Brown, in reply to
Beloved and I went and danced a little at Mollett Street not long ago. Even though the building was gone, the vibe was there.
You know, hardly anyone will understand how cool that is, but that's so, so cool .
That Media 7 was great; thanks I missed it on tv
Makes it all worthwhile getting it cleared then :-)
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Hebe, in reply to
Makes it all worthwhile getting it cleared then :-)
A mission? It was good because you captured Gerard very well, and Roger Sutton. Ceismic looks to be a fine thing too.
Nothing to stop a wee gathering at Mollett Street taking place -- I know of a sentient Android still extant and it's just outside the cordon. Gap Filler?
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Russell Brown, in reply to
A mission?
No, it wasn’t: thanks to Vincent Burke at Top Shelf and Philippa Mossman at TVNZ, who swiftly agreed to make it so.
But it isn’t standard practice for TVNZ to give whole programs to NZ On Screen, so it was very pleasing.
It was good because you captured Gerard very well
I believe I have written before how much I liked Gerard that day. I aim to turn up at that man’s house with a couple of good bottles of wine some time.
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Hilary Stace, in reply to
I've probably mentioned it before but his 2004 documentary on the aftermath of the closure of Templeton provides gentle insight into our sad history of institutionalisation. I would expect all his work to be as wonderful.
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Craig Ranapia, in reply to
Also, just a note that we had planned to have a 10 minute excerpt of When A City Falls in the collection, but there’ll be a delay there.
I assume it will be granted after the screening on Three next Wednesday (February 22) at 7.30. Which I'm pretty OK with, because it's not as if feature length local documentaries getting a mid-week prime time slot on FTA television is a routine occurrence.
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Matthew Littlewood, in reply to
I believe I have written before how much I liked Gerard that day. I aim to turn up at that man’s house with a couple of good bottles of wine some time.
I interviewed Gerard Smyth back in 2008, when I was doing the Canterbury University Journalism course, about his Alun Bollinger doco, Barefoot Cinema, which had just been released. He was a lovely and very interesting man, and was kind enough- once the tape was turned off- to give me some "tips" on how to interview subject- in a really nice way, that is, like he wanted to make sure someone got the best out of their subject. And anyone who has a passing interest in NZ Cinema should see the Barefoot Cinema , which is heartfelt, thorough and charming.
When A City Falls was an awesome, shattering and utterly necessary work, and I was struck by how much I felt the film when I saw/reviewed it. Don't think that's ever really happened to me before- I mean, I've been moved by cinema many times before, obviously, but I think that was the first time I had watched something and felt utterly inside it. Quite a strange sensation, really, especially considering, I wasn't there on the day, if you get what I mean.
A really interesting NZONScreen collection. I look forward to watching parts of it in my spare time.
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Matthew Littlewood, in reply to
I assume it will be granted after the screening on Three next Wednesday (February 22) at 7.30. Which I'm pretty OK with, because it's not as if feature length local documentaries getting a mid-week prime time slot on FTA television is a routine occurrence.
Yes, I agree. And well done to whoever managed to arrange the TV3 screening to coincide with the anniversary of the event.
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Craig Ranapia, in reply to
Yes, I agree. And well done to whoever managed to arrange the TV3 screening to coincide with the anniversary of the event.
I’m just hoping (but not holding my breath) that Three will decide to screen it ad-free. Not only because ads would would be a wee bit tacky, but it would really fuck up the experience of a film that (IMO) really strikes a difficult tonal balance. City could very easily have degenerated into pure lachrymose disaster porn, and it's so much more effecting for not going there.
Errol Morris’ The Fog of War showed up in the graveyard shift a couple of times last year, and it was just infuriating to have his dense but deceptively layering of speech and image punctured (in more than one case, literally in mid-sentence) for exhortations to buy Ah! Bras and magic ladders.
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Hebe, in reply to
a film that (IMO) really strikes a difficult tonal balance. City could very easily have degenerated into pure lachrymose disaster porn,
Yay. It worked.
It's a funny uneasy day today in Christchurch: Tuesday, and -- completely irrationally -- I don't like Tuesday lunchtimes after you-know-what. Tomorrow is looming even though I'm trying hard to keep it all in perspective. I mean, do earthquakes follow the Gregorian calendar?
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nzlemming, in reply to
do earthquakes follow the Gregorian calendar?
The concept of sentient earthquakes is deeply disturbing on many levels...
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Martin Lindberg, in reply to
I mean, do earthquakes follow the Gregorian calendar
According to Ken Ring, they follow the lunar calendar.
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Hebe, in reply to
I thought that was the lunatic calendar.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
Chants R 'n' R...
...do earthquakes follow the Gregorian calendar?
Well, those Gregorian Chant charts were big on vibrational tones - possibly incorporating the Solfeggio frequencies...
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Martin Lindberg, in reply to
I thought that was the lunatic calendar.
Heretic! You will bring down the wrath of Hecate (or Selene or Mani, depending on your affiliation).
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
The concept of sentient earthquakes is deeply disturbing on many levels...
It has a bit of a track record - Ruaumoko, Poseidon, Namazu.
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linger, in reply to
do earthquakes follow the Gregorian calendar?
I doubt they even follow the rugby.
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Hebe, in reply to
Namazu
A catfish dunnit? Sure; why not.
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Just FYI, I've checked with Emma and David, and they're both planning to write something for tomorrow.
We will, of course, forgive them if they can't quite get through that process.
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
Namazu
A catfish dunnit? Sure; why not.
This print depicts a namazu as a priest seated inside a giant rosary. The creature does not want to cause any more earthquakes, but the "worshipers" -- tradesmen such as lumber dealers and carpenters who profit from the disaster -- are praying for it to act up again. The ghosts of earthquake victims float overhead.
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Craig Ranapia, in reply to
It’s a funny uneasy day today in Christchurch: Tuesday, and – completely irrationally – I don’t like Tuesday lunchtimes after you-know-what.
Irrational, perhaps, but totally exquisitely human.
Tomorrow is looming even though I’m trying hard to keep it all in perspective. I mean, do earthquakes follow the Gregorian calendar?
No, but I have a friend in Christchurch who says she's been on a self-imposed media blackout for weeks. Can't blame her -- when the media did so much right in the immediate aftermath I'm personally squicked out by a disturbingly large proportion of the anniversary build up.
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
This print depicts a namazu as a priest seated inside a giant rosary. The creature does not want to cause any more earthquakes, but the “worshipers” – tradesmen such as lumber dealers and carpenters who profit from the disaster – are praying for it to act up again. The ghosts of earthquake victims float overhead.
Sounds like the Broken Window Parable is older than we think.
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Hebe, in reply to
Well, those Gregorian Chant charts were big on vibrational tones - possibly incorporating the Solfeggio frequencies,
Greg asks if someone musically literate could "score" the earthquakes since September 4 chart on http://www.canterburyquakelive.co.nz/ An interesting thought.
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