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History of Aotearoa New Zealand Film and Photography

This topic investigates and reveals Aotearoa New Zealand’s history and culture past and present through our Māori and Pakeha photographers, films, television, documentaries and directors. SCIS no. 1808451

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50 Memorable NZ photos since 1950s - 2010s

50 Memorable NZ photos since 1950s - 2010s

Photographs capturing 50 moments in NZ history since 1950s - 2010s that have lingered on in the memory

A brief history of Māori cinema

Ngā Taonga take a quick look at the history of Māori Cinema. As Taika Waititi said, “indigenous people ‘are the original storytellers and we can make it here too”.

Sam Neill: Landfall - A Film About Ourselves (1974)

Sam Neill: Landfall - A Film About Ourselves (1974)

On September 14 1947 New Zealand actor & winemaker Sam Neill was born. His birth name is Nigel John Dermot Neill. He was born in Northern Ireland, in Omagh, County Tyrone, the second son of Dermot ...

Documentary film

A look at New Zealand documentaries

Many New Zealand documentaries of the 20th century featured the country’s stunning landscape in an effort to attract tourists and settlers. Since the 1970s social and political issues, and art and ...

Tikanga about animated pictures of the dead

A new technological trend of animating images of people is becoming popular with images Māori tipuna and other dead people being animated for fun without knowledge of the offence to Māori, whānau, ...

New Zealand's rich photographic history

New Zealand's rich photographic history

Te Papa's curator of photography Athol McCredie talks about his new book and exhibition of photographs.

Shirley Horrocks

Shirley Horrocks

One of New Zealand's leading arts and social documentary-makers is Shirley Horrocks.

Shannon Te Ao - Ka mua, ka muri

Ka mua, ka muri is a new moving image project by Aotearoa New Zealand-based artist Shannon Te Ao (Ngāti Tūwharetoa), exploring our experience in time, history and song.

The Colonial Family Album: Māori and Photography in Nineteenth-Century Otago

This video illustrates how Kāi Tahu used photography to shape and communicate their new colonial identity through a case study of a single photograph album.

Television in New Zealand

New Zealand’s first non-experimental television transmission went to air on 1 June 1960.

Indigenous filmmakers come to Aotearoa to collaborate with Māori

Indigenous filmmakers recently visited NZ to share their experiences, ideas and work with others in this special sector. Krystal-Lee Brown caught up with these creatives to find out why it's import...

50 Years of New Zealand Television

50 Years of New Zealand Television

This major documentary series chronicles the first half century of New Zealand television.

REWI'S LAST STAND." (NZ Truth, 05 September 1925)

New Zealand's first super feature film.

Kete Aronui - Merata Mita

Kete Aronui - Merata Mita

This episode of the Māori arts show follows Māori screen pioneer Merata Mita, who produced vital work anchored in culture and community. This extract looks at the day in May 1978 police arrested 20...

Footrot Flats: a dog's tale

Footrot Flats: a dog's tale

Murray Ball's Footrot Flats became very popular and was made into a full-length animated movie in 1986.

Robin Morrison, photographer

Robin Morrison, photographer

Director John Bates' 1993 documentary examines the life and work of photographer Robin Morrison, who captured iconic images of everyday New Zealand life and landscape

New Zealand film: classroom resources

These units have been developed to support the publication New Zealand Film: An illustrated history of New Zealand’s moving image.

Indigenous film “We Are Still Here” premieres

In response to the more than 250 years of colonisation in the Pacific, indigenous filmmakers from Aotearoa and Ahitereiria have collaborated to create eight interwoven stories called “We Are Still ...

Taika Waititi, also known as Taika Cohen, hails from the Raukokore region of the East Coast.

Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision

Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision focuses on the housing of film, and television programmes.

Funny New Zealand Television ads

A selection of funny New Zealand TV Ads.

Indigenous television in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Looks at the establishment of an indigenous television channel in Aotearoa/New Zealand.

Historical photography

The Te Papa Historical Photography Collection comprises negatives, transparencies, and original prints.

Early New Zealand photographers

Presents images from early New Zealand photographers.

Digital New Zealand

Uncover amazing photographs; video and film footage from New Zealand’s present and past.

The rise of Māori film

There was a time when Māori were in the background of film.

A biography of Peter Jackson.

Māori & the Photographer 1860–1940

A selection of Māori portraits compiled from material that has resurfaced over the last fifteen years, mostly acquired in Britain.

New Zealand photographer, Peter Black, is well-known for his street photography.

Surprising history of New Zealand films

The release of the first of Sir Peter Jackson's three The Lord of the Rings films changed how the world viewed New Zealand.

Natural History New Zealand

Each year, NHNZ produces more than 60 hours of television.

The Swainson/Woods Collection

The Swainson/Woods Collection, donated to Puke Ariki in 2005, is a significant photographic collection.

Ans Westra is one of New Zealand’s finest social and documentary photographers.

Explore the history of New Zealand cinema and television and its identities.

National Publicity Studios

The National Publicity Studios was established in 1945.

A rare insight into 19th century New Zealand and Māori photographic history.

The National Film Unit

The National Film Unit was established in August 1941.

History of New Zealand screen industry

New Zealand’s film-making industry experienced resurgence in the late 1970s.

The new generation of filmmakers

A new generation of rangatahi have been getting on with making their own cinema.

NZ film timeline

This interactive timeline illustrates New Zealand's film history.

Wahine disaster

Footage showing the Wahine shipping disaster. The first NZ disaster filmed live by NZ television.

Exploring the impact of Māori Television

The channel has contributed to political and cultural revitalisation for Māori and shaped notions of nationhood.

TVNZ: the early years

At 7.30pm on Wednesday 1 June 1960, New Zealand's first official television transmission began.

Mana Tangata: Matariki kōrero - Māori filmmakers

For our fourth "Zui" we are honoured to welcome Julian and Bec Arahanga, Libby Hakaraia and Whetu Fala to the panel to kōrero about being Māori filmmakers For our fourth "Zui" we are honoured to...

McNamara gallery

Features many of New Zealand’s contemporary photographers.

Archives New Zealand

A selection of albums on Flickr that reflect on our photographic past.

Television set

Photograph of a new TV in a living room.

Māori television collection

Māori Television hit the airwaves on 28 March 2004. This collection demonstrates how the network has staked its place as Aotearoa's indigenous broadcaster.

Peter Jackson

Caricature of New Zealand film producer and director Peter Jackson showing off the 11 Oscars his trilogy Lord of the Rings won in 2004.

Television commercial storyboard

Television commercial storyboard

A 1960s television commercial storyboard for McKenzie's department store.

Information about the popular hand-coloured photographs of mid twentieth century New Zealand by Whites aviation .

Young Pacific filmmakers

Young Pacific filmmakers have been honoured at red carpet events to celebrate the first Pasifika Youth Short Film competition.

Documentary film

In a documentary film, images and sounds taken from real life are constructed into a story containing a point of view.

The Scarecrow Ref: Eph-E-CINEMA-1982-02

The Scarecrow Ref: Eph-E-CINEMA-1982-02

A poster advertising the New Zealand movie The Scarecrow.

EPIC contains a number of databases with useful information related to New Zealand film, television and photography. School login may be required.

How we uncovered the oldest surviving photograph of a Māori.

Patu!

Merata Mita’s Patu! charts the protests that took place across New Zealand in the winter of 1981, before and during a South African rugby tour. Testament to the courage and faith of both the marche...

How a 19th-Century photographic technique erased a Māori tradition

Michael Bradley revisits the wet plate photography technique that had removed Indigenous tattoo traditions from photographic records.

New Zealand Film Commission

The Photographic Society of New Zealand Inc. (PSNZ) promotes photography and image-making and aims to support photographers.

PhotoForum Inc. is a New Zealand non-profit incorporated society dedicated to the promotion of photography as a means of communication and expression.

Auckland Libraries: photographic collections

The Digital Library contains a wide selection of heritage images and photography resources from 1800s to the present day.

At the Māoriland hub we celebrate Indigenous excellence in film and across all forms of artistic expression.

First movie shot in New Zealand

The first motion pictures known to have been taken in New Zealand were made by photographer W.H. Bartlett in 1898.

48Hours is NZ's largest guerrilla filmmaking competition!

The Animation Collection

A selection of New Zealand animated films.

Lord of the Rings Director Peter Jackson on his greatest moments

Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

Merata Mita argued forcefully that the voices of Māori and of women were sorely lacking on-screen. Best known for Springbok tour documentary Patu!, the straight-talking director and actor ran an in...

Moana Maniapoto: hands off our images

Fine Art America, a print-on-demand website, was bombarded by people who took exception to Māori images being flogged off by people with no connection to our culture.

Dame Gaylene Preston

Dame Gaylene Preston on her films and her life.

Dame Jane Campion

New Zealand director, producer and screenwriter Dame Jane Campion DNZM is one of contemporary cinema’s most notable film-makers.

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