Loading Docs 2016 - Imagine the World is Ending

The theme for 2016’s batch of Loading Docs was 'change'. This entry stretches the boundaries of documentary, as two high school students engage in an impassioned piece of performance poetry. Mount Albert Grammar School's Jahmal Nightingale and Joseph McNamara film themselves performing their own poetic clarion call for change. The two Gen-Z teens wander Auckland and muse on body image, booze, racism, sexism, and the apocalypse. Director Brendan Withy and producer Doug Dillaman first saw the duo at high school spoken word competition WORD - The Front Line.

What's the purpose of the apocalypse to the famished if they already have nothing to lose?

– Joseph McNamara

Key Cast & Crew

Joseph McNamara

Poem, Presenter, Camera

Brendan Withy

Director, Producer, Camera, Editor, Sound Recordist

Jahmal Nightingale

Poem, Presenter, Camera

Doug Dillaman

Producer, Camera, Editor, Camera, Sound Recordist

Alan Kidd

Sound Design

Anna Jackson

Executive Producer