WELCOME TO OUR NEXT SCREENING
Merata Mita's
HOTERE
(New Zealand | 2001 | 82 mins | M adult themes)
Wednesday 13 May at 7.15pm
University of Otago’s Colquhoun Lecture Theatre**
In the later part of her career, Mereta Mita directed an impressionistic feature-length portrait of one of NZ’s most important artists, Ralph Hotere.
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“Ralph Hotere has confronted us with all manner of texture and material, on canvas, corrugated roofing iron, glass, stainless steel, through windows, with light and darkness, No 8 fencing wire, in installations, alone and in collaboration. |
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To many he is a visionary with his finger on the pulse. Like his art, he is a man of ambiguity, allegory, beauty and complexity. |
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Natural and religious symbols, the contradictions between sacred and secular, dark and light, are underlying themes, which serve the prophetic and aesthetic functions of his work... |
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| The film does not view Hotere through labels. And it does not deny the spectator’s right to respond, to challenge, to accept, to reject, to plumb the depths, to become involved” – Merata Mita. |
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“There are very few things I can say about my work that are better than saying nothing” – Ralph Hotere. |
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NOTE: Thanks to our friends at Madman Entertainment, the distributors of Caterpillar, the new New Zealand film by Chelsie Preston Crayford, we will be having a lucky draw for complimentary tickets and two-for-one vouchers for the film next Wednesday evening before the screening of Hotere. Only members present on the night will be eligible to win one of these prizes. ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
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ADMISSION
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To purchase a Full/Half Season membership:- complete a membership form from our website and pay by online bank transfer (06-0942-0696013-00);
- or join at the door before any screening (cash only).
- you can also join at the OUSA office reception at the University of Otago (cash only).
Alternatively, you can purchase a Three-Film sampler ($25), which can be also be shared to bring two friends to one screening. The sampler does not expire and can be used over multiple years.
Membership includes generous discounts at Rialto Cinemas (from Monday to Friday) and the 2026 Dunedin Whānau Marama New Zealand International Film Festival; and FREE entry to the 2026 screenings of all other affiliated New Zealand Film Societies. Each member is entitled to ONE FREE GUEST ADMISSION to a single screening.
**To get to the Colquhoun Theatre: The Colquhoun is located on the first floor of the current Dunedin Public Hospital, above the chapel and squash courts. Stairs and lift access are from the main Hospital entrance on Great King Street.
WE WELCOME YOUR FEEDBACK!... on this screening, or any other Dunedin Film Society showing, on dunedinfi...@gmail.com –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– |
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