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This Sunday on Standing Room Only RNZ National 12.30pm-4pm with Lynn Freeman we're playing music from films by New Zealand women as we hear from the NZ Film Commission, after 12.30pm live, from the Berlin International Film Festival, where a record number of women-directed New Zealand films have been selected. It includes the world premiere of Vai, featuring nine Pacific Island women directors, all present in Berlin. Also on the show after At The Movies with Dan Slevin at 1pm, Casey Zilbert director of new NZ feature Hang Time, set during a lost weekend on a Marlborough vineyard for a group of millennials.
Exploring issues around protests and riots, painter Lisa Chandler's latest canvases portray anonymous people photographing slumped bodies, and others in gas masks, Malia Johnston and Rowan Pierce introduce the work of one of our most innovative performance companies Movement of the Human, who brought us critical faves Rushes and Meremere, and Auckland's Wara Bullôt is one of 54 invited photographers who made the cut for the Royal Photographic Society International Exhibition in Bristol.
On the Laugh Track it's Donna Brookbanks, and then poet Lynn Jenner connects up the work of Charles Brash and the Kapiti coast Expressway. Christchurch dance critic Dr Ian Lochhead meanwhile argues that two New Zealand tours by the famous Ballets Russes company from Russia in the late 1930s had a profound influence on this country's ballet.
