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CINEMAL

Book Launch for Tessa Laird's publication CINEMAL: The Becoming-Animal of Experimental Film, followed by a screening of five films from Aotearoa and Australia exploring the animal qualities of cinema.

CIRCUIT, Level 2, 27 Dixon St, Wellington · March 11, 2026
CINEMAL
CIRCUIT is the leading voice for artist moving image in Aotearoa New Zealand

Recently added works

Generative Dopamine Environment
Shannon Novak

Generative Dopamine Environment (2025)

A pre-recorded digital environment which fluctuates in response to frequently opened phone apps; creating a map of dopamine activation in the users brain

Generative Dopamine Environment
Take a 10
Samantha Cheng

Take a 10 (2022)

A performative meditation on labour and time.

Take a 10
Happy Ever After
Samantha Cheng

Happy Ever After (2021)

The artist repeatedly attempts to run into the sunset.

Happy Ever After
A dusky sepia toned image of a buttefly alighting on a hand
SJ Ramir

I Found Water (2023)

An autobiographical film that employs textured video footage, drowned in darkness, to examine deteriorating memories and the nature of their preservation.

I Found Water
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Writing & podcast

A flood of colourful digital shapes burst towards the viewer from a single viewpoint.

How to Programme a Cyborg, and Shannon Novak’s Generative Dopamine Loop (2025)

Essay
By Lauren Yates ·

Lauren Yates examines the interface between technology and satisfaction in recent work by Shannon Novak.

Shannon Novak’s Generative Dopamine Loop
A person in retail working clothes holding an inflatable ring and walks towards the ocean.

Comic Release: Samantha Cheng

Hosted by Joe Jowitt ·

In a hyper-connected world, Samantha Cheng's durational performances examine failure as a generative space.

Samantha Cheng
In the hushed darkness of an art gallery four people sit and watch two animated swans bend their necks towards each other, forming the shape of a heart.

Hye Rim Lee: Swan Lake

Exhibition review
By Hamish Win ·

Hye Rim Lee reimagines the classic 19th century ballet as "an exorcism of controlling forces".

Hye Rim Lee-Swan Lake
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News and opportunities

A film still of a lake and a shoreline of thick bush is overlaid with drawings of taniwhā, canoe and birdlife.

Call for Proposals: 2026 Matariki Commission

Call for proposals

Applications are now invited for CIRCUIT’s 2026 Matariki Commission.

Call for Proposals: 2026 Matariki Commission
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