Shirley Horrocks
Shirley Horrocks, ONZM, is one of New Zealand’s leading directors of documentaries about the arts. Her work has chronicled the work and lives of artist Len Lye, photographer Marti Friedlander, writer Albert Wendt and playwright Roger Hall. Her films have won awards, and screened at festivals from France and Italy to the United States.
Often the people I've made documentaries about are out there, but perhaps they're not widely known. I wanted to get them more widely known because I think they really should be. Shirley Horrocks in The NZ Herald, 12 July 2007
Shirley Horrocks: Arts documentarian...
Interview, 2018
Peter Peryer: The Art of Seeing
2019, Director, Producer, Research - Film
Paul Callaghan: Dancing with Atoms
2018, Director, Writer, Producer, Research - Film
Free Theatre - The 37 Year Experiment
2017, Director, Writer, Research - Film
Tom Who? The Enigma of Tom Kreisler
2015, Director, Producer - Film
Venus: A Quest
2013, Director, Writer, Producer - Film
50 Years of New Zealand Television: 6 - A Sense of Identity
2010, Subject - Television
Questions for Mr Reynolds
2007, Director, Producer, Research - Television
The Comics Show
2007, Producer, Director - Television
Sophie's Story
2006, Director, Producer - Short Film
Who Laughs Last?
2006, Director, Writer, Research, Producer - Television
The New Oceania
2005, Director - Television
Marti: The Passionate Eye
2004, Director, Producer - Television
Early Days Yet
2001, Director, Producer, Writer, Research - Television
The Real New Zealand
2000, Director, Writer, Producer, Research - Television
Sweet As
1999, Director, Writer, Producer - Television
Inside Out
1998 - 2004, Director - Television
Kiwiana - Kiwi As
1997, Director, Producer, Research - Television
Kiwiana
1996, Director, Producer - Television
Flip & Two Twisters
1995, Director, Co-Producer, Writer - Television
For Love or Money
1995, Director, Writer, Research, Co-Producer - Television
Putting Our Town on the Map
1995, Director, Writer, Co-Producer - Television
Act of Murder
1993, Director, Producer, Writer - Television
See What I Mean
1992, Director, Producer, Writer - Television
Pleasures and Dangers
1991, Director, Producer, Writer, Research - Television