Four Shapes for Four Spaces

This National Film Unit production records the making of four large-scale sculptures for a 1971 international symposium to commemorate Auckland City’s centennial. Helen Escobedo (Mexico) nodded to the skyline’s masts and cranes with Signals in Parnell Rose Garden; Opened Stone by Hiroaki Ueda (Japan) was balanced near Auckland Art Gallery for 35 years; and American Fred Loopstra's Homage to Will still ploughs Victoria Park. A central city scrap metal work by Canadian Tom Burrows was removed in 1977, perhaps achieving his stated aim: to “disturb” its viewers!

Possibly I could like to put a piece of sculpture in front of that building, but it wouldn’t be to make the people’s life more pleasant, it would be to make the people tear down the building.

– Canadian sculptor Tom Burrows

Key Cast & Crew

Lynton Diggle

Camera

Ray Henwood

Narrator

Arthur Everard

Director, Editor, Writer

Ron Bowie

Producer

Bob Halliday

Assistant Camera

Geoffrey Scott

Executive Producer