Programme Two

Kanohi ki te Kanohi- Face To Face
Programme 2

Land of Plenty - OMC, 1996
Director: Kerry Brown
Courtesy of Flying Fish, Huh and Polygram records
Music video, 3 mins/Betacam SP

Song of the South Seas, 1993
Directors: Chris Williams and Chris Todd
Courtesy of Chris Williams and Chris Todd
25 mins/16 mm

Song of the South Seas is a colourful half-hour documentary on the life of Bill Sevesi, Hawaiian guitarist and gives insight into the music of the Hawaiian bands during their peak of popularity - post WWII and pre rock and roll. Amongst the biography you are treated to archive footage, photographs and the music that is pivotal for the story’s being.

Which Way is East, 1994
Director: Lynne Sachs in collaboration with Dana Sachs
Courtesy of Women Make Movies, USA
33 mins/16 mm

When two American sisters travel north from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi, conversations with Vietnamese strangers and friends reveal to them the flip side of a shared history. Which Way is East, Lynne and Dana Sachs’ travel diary and their half hour film, starts as a road trip and flowers into political discourse. It combines Vietnamese parables, history and memories of the people the sisters met, as well as their own childhood memories of the war on TV.

Mix That Scratch, 1994
Director:Veronica Vaevae
Courtesy of Veronica Vaevae
B/W, 2 mins/Betcam SP

‘Mix That Scratch is an experimental piece in which I have used designs relating specifically to the area that my parents come from in the Cook Islands, animated to sound mixed by DJ Fast Eddie. A representation of myself and also, in a sense, of other urban Polynesian youths in Auckland because as it happens there are more Polynesians living here than in the Islands themselves.’ - Veronica Vaevae

I’m British But, 1990
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Courtesy of Ronin Films, Australia
30 mins/Betacam SP

‘The evolution of British Bhangra and Bangla music marks the beginning of the end of British national chauvinism for those of us who have been born and brought up here. It has helped us define ourselves as a migrant community with a musical language of our own, created by us, for us, but open for enjoyment by all.’ - Gurinder Chadha

I’m British But uncovers a defiant popular culture - a synthesis - part Asian, part British. The film presents a strident new perspective on British nationalism.

Etak: A Sense of Place, 1996
Director: Anthony Sumich
Creative Development: Amanda Wright
6 mins/Betacam SP

‘Etak: A Sense of Place is a short documentary shot on digital video and 16mm film during the Pacific Arts Festival held in Western Samoa in 1996. Etak: A Sense of Place explores modes of navigation, personal and social and the establishment of physiological trigger points?a sense of a sense, a sense of place, a sense of self.’ - Anthony Sumich

Dome - Bailter Space,1997
Director: Marc Swadel
Courtesy of Flying Nun Records
Music video, 3mins/Betacam SP