Paying close attention to the texture and grain of his materials, Ord works across media and formats, from Super 8 film to mobile-phone recordings and found video, moving between analogue and digital technologies. Loops and edits are made to unsettle an image’s relationship to sound, while repetition defamiliarises ordinary gestures and choreographed movements. Across his practice, Ord draws on his background as a dancer and choreographer, bringing archival material into contact with his own footage while reworking recorded movements into scores for further encounters. Sources ranging from Hollywood cinema and neoclassical ballet to musical recordings and the gestures of everyday life meet in compositions that loosen familiar associations between image and sound. In the interval between between objects and their representations, a body and its image, Ord finds inspiration for new associations, opening familiar material to unforeseen poetic possibilities

Curated by Tendai Mutambu

Other Cinemas’ and curator Hana Pera Aoake’s friendship and collaboration began in 2023. In this exhibition they continue their creative collaboration, which is rooted in shared political values and a desire to create spaces for gathering and sharing. Other Cinemas’ practice is centered around gathering through making films, sharing the work of others with their community, and running a free film school. Built upon a desire to use film as a tool to build community, connection and solidarity, this exhibition naturally includes the work of others in order to learn together and build understanding that our struggles—though nuanced and specific—are ultimately often shared.

Unseen. Unheard. Unarchived. explicitly draws on ideas within the writing and work of Barry Barclay and Toni Cade Bambara. Other Cinemas and Aoake bring together these two artists and thinkers as people who have shaped not just the outcomes of their work, but the ongoing processes and tikanga that embed their practices to their communities of Brent and Kawerau. By thinking about the Internationalist approaches of both, who thought locally but acted globally, we draw upon and learn from their work and lives. Both filmmakers understood the value of sharing, telling stories and of creating a nexus of Internationalist solidarity and compassion, which serves as important bodies of work that has been drawn on in order to design this exhibition at Enjoy and wider programme across Te Ika-a-Māui and Te Waka-a-Māui.  

Featuring the work of Other Cinemas, Barry Barclay (Ngāti Apa, Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi, Ngāti Hauiti), Sarah Hudson (Ngāti Awa, Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Pūkeko), Leila Gamaz,  Edith Amituanai (Sāmoa), Todd Karehana (Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Ranginui, Te Arawa, Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Ruapani ki Waikaremoana), Jazz Money (Wiradjuri nation),  Amel Moyersoen, Leena Habiballa and Chanthila Phaophanit.  

 

Curated by Hana Pera Aoake