#24 Upcoming:
THE GODS OF TIMES SQUARE
Presented by Joe Cain
7pm Wednesday June 4th @ The Undercurrent
#23IT'S A BEAUTIFUL WORLD
It's a Beautiful World (Richard Beymer 2014)
Presented by Justyna Sobkowicz on 07/05/25
#22FILMS FROM THE CANADIAN UNDERGROUND 2
'Tondal's Vision' (Stephen Broomer 2018)
Presented by Tyler Shane Tesolin on 02/04/25
#21OCEAN 3
'From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf' (CAMP 2013)
Presented by Christopher Thompson on 05/03/25
#20INSECT CINEMA
'sound of a million insects, light of a thousand stars' (Tomonari Nishikawa 2014); 'Mothlight' (Stan Brakhage 1962); 'Terrorstic Entomology' (Irene Moon 1998); 'Perfectly Pleasant Decomposistion' (Irene Moon 1998); 'Crawl Space' (Catherine Chalmers); 'Antworks' (Catherine Chalmers); 'Firefly' (Isabella Rossellini 2008); 'Mantis' (Isabella Rossellini 2008); 'Spider' (Isabella Rossellini 2008); '16mm' (Daniel Steegmann Mangrané 2009-2011); 'Phasmides' (Daniel Steegmann Mangrané 2013); 'Moon Moth Bed' (Viginia L. Montgomery 2023); 'O, LUNA' (Viginia L. Montgomery 2023)
Presented by Hannah van Seventer on 08/01/25
#19EXPERIMENTS IN YOUTH STORYTELLING AND RADICAL EDUCATION
excerpts from 'C’mon c’mon' (Mike Mills 2021); 'From the Ikpeng Children to the World' (Kumaré Ikpeng, Karané Ikpeng and Natuyu Yuwipo Txicão 2001); 'Spell Reel' (Filipa César 2017); 'Mangrove School' (Filipa César and Sónia Vaz Borges 2022); 'Precious Knowledge' (Ari Palos 2011); 'The 5th Eye' (Abi King-Jones and Errol Wright 2016), and behind the scene footage from Te Kura-a-iwi O Whakatupuranga Rua Mano documentary film
Presented by Poppy Carter with special guest Adrian Leason on 04/12/24
#18THE CINEMA WE NEED: FILMS FROM THE CANDIAN UNDERGROUND
'The Last Days of Contrition' (Richard Kerr 1988); 'Cruel Rhythm' (Richard Kerr 1991)
Presented by Tyler Shane Tesolin on 06/11/24
#17LOCAL FILMMAKERS' EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA
’Blackholes are Gathering’ (super cut) (Dan Harris 2019); ‘An Echo of Reflection’ (Poppy Marshall-Kirby); ‘Business’ (Joe Cain 2023); ‘TERROR NULLIUS Unmixed’ (Caitlin Lynch 2018); ‘Carwash’ (Jacques Sirot 2023); 'The Hampton Project' (Poppy Carter); 'At Night We Dance’ (Christopher T. 2021); ’Desire Trilogy’ (Tyler Shane Tesolin)
Presented collectivly on 02/10/24
#16OCEAN 2
'Leviathan' (Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel 2012)
Presented by Christopher Thompson on 05/09/24
#15AOTEAROA POETRY FILM FESTIVAL RETROSPECTIVE
Part 1: 'L’etoile de mer' (Man Ray 1928); 'The House Is Black' (Forugh Farrokhzad 1963); 'Sign Language' (Tony Konnyves 1985); 'Snows of Aorangi' (NFU Excerpt 1955, feat. J.K. Baxter); 'Psalm 150' (Jerico Brown 2020); 'Waiting' (Thadra Sheridan 2014).'Word' (Louis Vuitton 2012); 'Levi’s Legacy' (Levis 2011) Part 2: 'Eeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeee' (Ariane Caron-Lacoste); 'Idk' (Chelsea Werner-Jatzke); 'Antique Lands' (Zack McCune, NZ); 'Changing Skin' (Maxime Coton, Belgium); 'Dulce et Decorum' (Walter Haussner, NZ); 'Mochi' (Eoghan McDonaugh, NZ); 'Whirflow' (Kathleen Mantel, NZ); 'Inferno' (Shu Run Yap, NZ). 'The Sound of Soil' (Christopher T. and Hannah van Seventer, NZ, 2023); 'Waves of Ghosts' (Dominic Hoey and Jack Nicol, NZ); 'Shades of Grey' (Lyon Pol, NZ)
Presented by Alfio Leotta on 01/08/24
#14NOSTOS
'Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania' (Jonas Mekas 1972)
Presented by Tyler Shane Tesolin on 04/07/24
#13MULVEY, QUEEN OF THE GAZE
‘Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons’ (Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen 1974)
Presented by Lilian Goodliffe on 6/06/24
#12OCEAN 1
'The Blessed Assurance' (Isabelle Carbonell 2018); '.TV' (G. Anthony Svatek 2017); 'Slow Action' (Ben Rivers 2011)
Presented by Christopher Thompson on 02/05/24
#11A SHORT HISTORY OF EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA
Part 1: 'The Artwork in the Age of its Mechanical Reproducibility' (Keith Sanborn 1996, USA); 'An Optical Poem' (Oscar Fischinger 1938, Germany); 'De Natura' (Lucille Hadzihalilović 2017, France); 'Boston Fire' (Peter Hutton 1979, Detroit); 'Beginning' (Artavazd Peleshian 1967, Armenia); 'Kustom Kar Kommando' (Kenneth Anger 1965, USA); 'Weird Woman (State I)' (Genesis P. Orridge 2003-2010); 'Death Mask II: The Scent' (Ed Atkins 2010, Britain); Part 2: 'Free Radicals (Len Lye 1958, NZ?); 'Circadian Rhythms' (David Blyth 1976, NZ); 'Napkins' (Joanna Margret Paul 1975, NZ); '2.5 kilometre Mono Action for a Mirage' (Alex Monteith 2011, NZ); 'Not Everybody Can Do Everything' (Peter Waring 2010. 13m32s excerpt)
Presented by Tyler Tesolin and Christopher Thompson on 04/04/24
#10INTERSPECIES ART PRACTICE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE
(Untitled) 'Human Mask' (Pierre Huyghe 2014); 'What the Sun Has Seen' (Agnieszka Polska 2017); 'The Word for Water is Whale' (Zadie Xa 2021); 'Becoming Sensor in an Oak Savannah' (Natasha Myers); and an excerpt from 'Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival' (Fabrizio Terranova 2016)
Presented by Hannah van Seventer on 14/09/23.
#9GENDER AND MORTALITY WITH DEATH METAL MUSIC VIDEO
Presented by William Pigot on 31/08/23
#7ANTI-OPPENHEIMER
'Hiroshima Mon Amour' (Alain Resnais 1959)
Presented by Tyler Shane Tesolin on 10/08/23
#6CAMP CINEMA BY LESBIAN FILMMAKERS
'D.E.B.S' (Angela Robinson 2003); 'Girltrash!' (Robinson 2007); 'Stuck' (Jamie Babbit 2001);'Sleeping Beauties' (Babbit 1999)
Presented by Lilian Goodliffe on 27/07/23
#5MACHINIMA
Test screening of Mercado’s PhD films
Presented by Oscar Manuel Nodal Mercado on 13/7/23.
#4PROTEST FILM SCREENING
An event coinciding with student efforts to protest government underfunding of Universities
'Street Politics 101' (subMedia 2013); 'Rebels in Retrospect' (Russell Campbell 1991)
Presented by Christopher Thompson and Tyler Tesolin on 29/6/23
#3SISYPHUS, AGAIN
'Dog Star Man' (Stan Brakhage 1964)
Presented by Tyler Tesolin on 8/6/23
#2NO STATE
'Johnny Barcode' (Brent Hayward 2011); 'Manawanui' (Hayward 1996); 'The Maintenance of silence' (William Keddell 1985); 'How to shoot a Crime' (Chris Kraus 1987)
Presented by Christopher Thompson on 18/5/23
#1AWKWARD AND DARK
'Autobiographical Scene Number 6882' (Ruben Östlund 2005); 'Incident at a Bank' (Östlund 2009); The Dinner Scene from 'The Square' (Östlund 2015); 'World Of Glory' (Roy Anderson 1991)
Presented by Tristan Keillor on 4/5/23