Florian Habicht: A filmmaker with a light and quirky touch...

Director Florian Habicht is responsible for some of New Zealand's quirkiest films. Habicht made his breakthrough in 2003 with the surreal Woodenhead. Since then, his features have blurred the boundaries between documentary and drama.

In this ScreenTalk, Habicht talks about:

• Studying photography at Elam Art School and his drive to push the boundaries of the medium

• Making short films at Elam and learning by doing, breaking rules, and embracing mistakes as part of the process

• How a planned tourism film morphed into the demolition derby documentary Kaikohe Demolition

• Mixing fact and fiction with surreal documentary Liebesträume - The Absurd Dreams of Killer Ray

• Working with theatre director Warwick Broadhead on "grim musical fairytale" Woodenhead

• Teaming up with Broadhead again for 2008 documentary Rubbings From a Live Man where he plays all characters

• Soaking up inspiration and roaming New York City on the Harriet Friedlander Arts Foundation Arts Residency

This video was first uploaded on 22 August 2008, and is available under this Creative Commons licence. This licence is limited to use of ScreenTalk interview footage only and does not apply to any video content and photographs from films, television, music videos, web series and commercials used in the interview.

Direction and Interview - Clare O'Leary, Camera and Editing - Leo Guerchmann