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- 2 days ago15 min
Josiah Morgan's plans at the Robert Lord Writers Cottage
Josiah Morgan is a Christchurch-based poet, theatre practitioner and editor heading to Dunedin this week as Young Writer in Residence at the Robert Lord Writers Cottage, as part of the New Zealand Young Writers Festival. He is working on a poem of around 100 pages in which a person attempts to surgically transform their body into that of a moa, and expects to have the first quarter of a draft and a structural spine by the time he emerges on 4 October. His first publication was a 60-page single poem. The Spinoff described his work Inside the Castle as a potential landmark New Zealand poem of its era. He joins Culture 101 to talk about the economics of being a creative, a Dennis Cooper poem that woke him up at 16, and why he made $0.47 an hour on his last theatre production.
- 2 days ago11 min
Sefton Rani: losing his home in Cyclone Gabrielle and the show that came from it
Sefton Rani lived in Piha and lost his home and studio in Cyclone Gabrielle. His first institutional solo exhibition, Clear My Throat, is now showing at Pah Homestead in Tamaki Makaurau until 15 November. The show uses industrial and hard materials across large sculptures and installations, and curator Dina Jezdic has placed it in dialogue with the colonial history of the homestead itself. Perlina visited the gallery to speak with Sefton and Dina about what the show holds and what it cost to make.
- 2 days ago14 min
Nomi Cohen on playing Sally Bowles as Cabaret turns 60
Cabaret turns 60 this year and is closing out Auckland Theatre Company's season at the ASB Waterfront Theatre, running 22 September to 25 October. Nomi Cohen plays Sally Bowles, the role made famous by Liza Minnelli in the 1972 film. Cohen has a Bachelor of Performing Arts in Musical Theatre, trained at the Actor's Programme. She joins Culture 101 to talk about inhabiting a character so embedded in pop culture and what it means to set your own version of Sally free.
- 2 days ago15 min
The Big Screen with Kate Rodger
Kate Rodger joins Culture 101 with the latest from the big screen.
- 2 days ago16 min
Peter Salmon on directing Good Bones and After the Party
Peter Salmon directed all six episodes of After the Party and came out the other side burnt out, so his next move was a comedy. Good Bones is a horror-comedy on ThreeNow and Neon starring Josh Thomson as a procrastinating husband whose marriage hinges on his ability to renovate a murder house. Salmon describes finding tone as the hardest and most instinctive part of directing, something he often doesn't identify until a few days into the shoot.
- 2 days ago12 min
In(Visible) Stories: the first-ever online archive of Pan-Asian screen creators
In(Visible) Stories is a new online archive tracking the history and current movements of Pan-Asian film, television and screen creators in Aotearoa, created by Dr Sarina Pearson and Dr Shuchi Kothari through their Asian New Zealanders on Screen Research Project, funded by the Royal Society Marsden Fund. The project maps work written, directed and produced by the Pan-Asian community, filling a gap that Pearson and Kothari say has meant these stories existed without a record.
- 1 weeks ago10 min
James Dansey on Reo Journeys, cycling Te Tai Tokerau and sounds of the trail
Reo Journeys: Te Pou Herenga Tai is a new five-part RNZ podcast debuting this afternoon, following documentary makers Eugene Bingham and Adam Dudding as they cycle the 90km Twin Coast Cycle Trail in Northland, with sound recordist and composer James Dansey recording the land, the people and the korero along the way. Dansey came to the project through te reo Maori class with Eugene and Adam, and describes it as the first time two worlds he thought would never coexist, sound and music on one side, te reo and tikanga on the other, came together for him. He joins Culture 101 ahead of the first episode airing at 3pm.
- 1 weeks ago20 min
Ashley Turner and Lissy Turner on designing the world of Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant
Production designer Ashley Turner and costume, hair and makeup designer Lissy Turner are the pair who built the world of Mum, I'm Alien Pregnant, the local body-horror comedy now in cinemas. They set the film in what they described internally as aspirational Invercargill, a deliberately familiar semi-rural New Zealand brick-and-tile apartment that makes the alien elements land harder when they arrive. They also took the alien foetus hero for a ride through the streets of Park City in a pushchair at Sundance, where the mounted police obligingly stopped for a photo. Ashley and Lissy join Culture 101 to talk about building the contrast between the mundane and the outlandish, and why every costume had to be made in multiple copies.
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