Asia Pacific Triennial Cinema In Conversation: Jeremy Leatinu’u and Ian Powell
When
30 Nov 2024
Where
Gallery of Modern Art & Cinema A
Accessibility
- Wheelchair Accessible
Admission
Free
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On the opening weekend of the Asia Pacific Triennial join artist Jeremy Leatinu’u and cinematographer Ian Powell as they discuss their creative collaboration and how, across the years, they have deeply refined their filmic language.
Jeremy Leatinu’u’s art work Te Whakawhitinga 2022 is displayed in the Asia Pacific Triennial exhibition space. An expanded selection of the artist’s moving image work 'Storytellers: Jeremy Leatinu’u and Ian Powell' will screen on loop throughout the day on Saturday 30 November in Cinema B.
Storytellers: Jeremy Leatinu’u and Ian Powell
10.00am – 5.00pm / Cinema B (looping)
Spanning early documentation of Jeremy Leatinu’u’s performance works through to immersive 16mm celluloid, this collection of mahi toi (art works) honours the creative conversation that the artist has established over a number of years with cinematographer Ian Powell. The moving image works in this program offer a rare opportunity to see the significant transition that has occurred as Leatinu’u and Powell move from a relationship of artist and videographer, evidenced in Earthpushers 2017, to collaborators on immersive, short films, often written, produced, directed and narrated by Leatinu’u. Structured around strands of a waiata, the deeply poetic and personal When the Moon Sees the Sun 2018 reflects on the life and passing of Leatinu’u’s koroua (grandfather) countered by the birth of his daughter while Taonga Tuku Iho 2021, explores our relationship to water. Grounded in the everyday, this mesmerising study of water in motion, of domestic uses of water, and of water surfaces becomes in Leatinu’u and Powell’s hands, abstract and surreal in tone. A graduate of Elam School of Fine Arts, the works that Leatinu’u has created with Powell have been seen in the Berlin International Film Festival and Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, and at Saskatoon’s Remai Modern, as well as in public galleries across Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia and Canada.