Hinekaro Goes On a Picnic and Blows Up Another Obelisk

This short, written and directed by Christine Parker (Channelling Baby) takes an allegorical look at the creative process. A writer (Rima Te Wiata) has a korero with a trickster spirit guide Hinekaro (voiced by Rena Owen), and conjures worlds from the words she inks on a page. In her imaginative struggles she’s visited by a ruru owl and her younger self, and other creatures are brought strikingly to life via special effects (beetles from a book, an eel hiding in a toilet bowl). Hinekaro was adapted from a 1991 short story by Booker Prize-winner Keri Hulme.

Where do words go after the sound of them has died?

– From the film's narration

Key Cast & Crew

Caterina De Nave

Producer

Christine Parker

Writer, Director

Minette Meder

As: Apprentice as a girl

George Boyle

As: Old Man

Ian Harrop

As: Executive

Glennis Paraha

As: Cleaner