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Still from Edith Amituanai, Epifania (2022)
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Legacies
What does a legacy taste, smell, sound, feel, or look like?
Legacies is CIRCUIT's seventh annual programme of artist cinema commissions, and features five short films by Edith Amituanai, Martin Sagadin, Ukrit Sa-nguanhai, Sriwhana Spong, and Pati Tyrell. All of the works are now available to stream online.
Recently added works
Garden of Clay (2022)
An artist sculpts clay in their studio while telling stories about their predecessors.
And the creeper keeps on reaching for the flame tree (2022)
An animation of the insects found in the last painting made by Spong's grandfather, the Balinese artist I Gusti Made Rundu. Their swarm imagines ancestry not as linear succession but as an accumulation of energy "charged with potentiality."
Trip After (2022)
A travel vlog mapping propagandist cinema screenings in Isan, the north-eastern region of Thailand, during the 1960s.
Writing & podcast
Mapping Rematriation with Pūrākau: seeing Indigenous futures through whakawātea and noa
Mapping Rematriation with Pūrākau: seeing Indigenous futures through whakawātea and noa
In the first of three essays, CIRCUIT'S Kaitiaki Kiriata, artist and curator Tanya Te Miringa Te Rorarangi Ruka explores the guiding mātauranga of Rematriation, a programme of moving image works by contemporary Māori artists.
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Homing Instinct: reflections on home, shelter, and belonging
Homing Instinct: reflections on home, shelter, and belonging
Curator Abby Cunnane reflects on understandings of home, shelter, and belonging through the works in the international touring exhibition Homing Instinct.
The Two-Fold Commitment: entanglements of sound and image at the play_station Film Festival
The Two-Fold Commitment: entanglements of sound and image at the play_station Film Festival
Jane Wallace excavates layers of meaning in the aural and visual registers of the six artists' films shown in the 2024 play_station Film Festival.
News and opportunities
CIRCUIT Artist Survey 2025: Results
Ngā mihi nui to all the artists who responded to our recent Artist Survey. Read on to learn more about the feedback we received