Arts
'Poi E' film premiere tonight - 32 years after song's release
Three decades after Patea Maori Club shot to fame with 'Poi E' the story behind the joyful hit song has been turned into a film. The world premiere is in Auckland tonight and director Tearepa Kahi… Audio
NZIFF 2016 – the Widescreen preview
The New Zealand International Film Festival programme rewards those who dig a little deeper so Dan Slevin reviews a few of the smaller films on offer in this year’s event.
Skip Ahead
NZ On Air and Youtube have created a new fund to help New Zealand based You-Tubers create webseries content. Skip Ahead will provide $300,000, along with networking and skill development… Audio
Brexit and British art
Arts commentator Courtney Johnston looks at English artist Jeremy Deller's "human memorial" to mark a hundred years since the Battle of the Somme. Audio
Festival lights up Nelson
About 55,000 people turned out for the Light Nelson festival over its four-night run and it has secured a place on the mid-winter calendar, organisers say. Video
Roald and the Giant Screen
With Steven Spielberg’s The BFG in cinemas this week, Dan Slevin chats to Afternoons’ Jesse Mulligan about the history of Roald Dahl adaptations on the big screen. Video, Audio
The Art of Etiquette - film festivals
With the New Zealand International Film Festival just around the corner, is it ok to put my feet on the seat in front of me? Can I leave if I don't like a film? And what about eating in the theatre… Audio
A bit of Variety
Composer Johannes Contag has written a new score for the 1923 silent film Variety to be played live during the New Zealand International Film Festival in Wellington on 7th August. Contag says the tale… Audio
Eve Armstrong's Trading Table
Wellington artist Eve Armstrong's interactive work the Trading Table brings buyers and sellers together, but no money changes hands. Rather, people offer up an object or a commitment in return for… Audio
Pokemon makes a comeback with new smartphone app
The news editor of the gaming website, Kotaku, Jason Schreier talks to Phillippa Tolley about the smartphone game, Pokemon Go. Japanese gaming giant Nintendo's stock soared 25 percent on the back of… Audio
ROTN Ser 2 Ep 5 "Head Starts or Moai the Long Face" 11 July 2016
Millie Neal reports back from 14th Century AD Easter Island where Rapa Nui are struggling with the intergenerational economic devide. The question is, how easy is it to get a head? Audio
Oh the Absurdity!
The Absurdity of Humanity is the latest work from The New Zealand Dance Company. The double bill show brings together works from Ross McCormack and Lina Limosani, both with an absurdist view on the… Audio
Rancho Notorious 4/14: Morning Tea with BG
NZIFF director Bill Gosden visits Rancho Notorious for freshly baked muffins and freshly brewed coffee and to chat about this year's event which opens in Auckland on Thursday. Dan also talks to the… Audio
Stand-up comedian Billy Crystal
Award-winning comic, turned movie star, Billy Crystal talks to Kathryn Ryan about his career in show business and his first time performing in New Zealand. Billy Crystal heads to the Auckland 's ASB… Audio
Red Hot and Recent
Centring around the new tribute album to the Grateful Dead from the Red Hot label, William Dart looks also at some of the label's other releases - many of which aim to raise awareness of HIV and the… Audio
Sound Domes
There's a new playground for sonic artists and composers who want to experiment with more than conventional musical instruments - the 'sound dome'. Auckland University's Dr John Coulter and Multimedia… Audio
The Revelations of Carey Ravine by Debra Daley
Journalist-turned-screenwriter and novellist Debra Daley has set her third book The Revelations of Carey Ravine in the midst of 1770s buccaneering London society. The Bay of Plenty-based writer has… Audio
Variety - the classic silent movie gets a new live score
Germany after the First World War was bleak. Poverty was all around, and the only place to escape it was at the live variety shows - if you could afford it. That's the theme to the German silent… Audio
Creative Activism
Can art make a difference? Hell, can it change the world? Should art make us feel uncomfortable, make us think, make us ask questions? Audio
Copenhagen Architecture
Copenhagen is regularly acclaimed as one of the world's "most liveable" cities. So just how have designers made it work so well and can we steal any of their ideas? Rasmus Frisk started up Copenhagen… Audio
