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Hotere

Film (Full Length) – 2001

Ralph Hotere (Te Aupōuri) is regarded by many as one of New Zealand's great artists. This documentary from director Merata Mita (Patu!) provides a perspective on Hotere's world, largely by way of framing his extensive body of work. Hotere remains famously tight-lipped throughout, but there are interviews with artists, friends and commentators, alongside scenes of Hotere working and of his Port Chalmers home. Mita's impressionistic film is accompanied by a Hirini Melbourne-directed score of jazz, Māori and pop songs — plus poetry readings by Hotere's first wife, Cilla McQueen. Hotere died in February 2015.

...one of the best New Zealand art documentaries this writer has seen.
– Otago Daily Times writer Nigel Benson, when Hotere screened on Sky's Documentary Channel, 26 June 2008

Key Cast & Crew

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Rongotai Lomas

Editor

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Cilla McQueen

Poetry Readings

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Hirini Melbourne

Musical Director

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Kerry Brown

Cinematographer

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Eliza Bidois

Producer, Executive Producer

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Merata Mita

Director, Writer, Producer, Narrator

See all 23 credits

Produced by

Paradise Films

Acknowledgements

Made with assistance from the Arts Council of New Zealand, TVNZ, NZ On Air, Tuakana Productions, US Film Direction Limited, the NZ Film Commission, and the QEll Arts Council of NZ Documentary Fellowship

Music

Includes music composed and performed by Hirini Melbourne, Rafer Rautjoki, Geoff Murphy and Clive Cockburn


Māori chants from Nga Moteatea performed by Hinewehi Mohi

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