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The Pleasures of Unbelonging

Saturday 4 March, 10:30

Run Time

60 mins
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The Pleasures of Unbelonging

A woman and children walk through a landscape wearing large velvet robes. Birds call, a river runs, and the sound of a bell radiates through deserted streets.

The Pleasures of Unbelonging, filmed in Hanmer Spring, a resort town in the Canterbury region of New Zealand’s South Island, unfolds through a series of dreamlike tableaux poised at the fringes of mystery and disquiet. With reference to James Baldwin’s Stranger in a Village, and leaning gently into the heady noir of Vertigo and Twin Peaks, Christopher Ulutupu’s new work stages a drama of encounter with the white gaze.


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Year

2023

Premiere

Dialogue Languages

English Samoan

Subtitle Language

English

Primary Contact

Christopher Ulutupu

Producer

CIRCUIT Artist Film and Video Aotearoa New Zealand

Cinematographer

Haz Forrester

Actor

Manaia Ashley Ah Hoi - Ulutupu