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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
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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