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Theo Macdonald, Cujo 2 (2024). Image courtesy of the artist.

Featured review

Monstrous, bloodied, and box-dyed

By Matthew Whiteman · October 30, 2025

Like any horror movie aficionado, Matthew Whiteman finds vulnerability, monstrosity, and cartharsis in The Brood, an exhibition at the Dowse Art Museum that traced a dark sensibility in recent art from Aotearoa.

<p>Monstrous, bloodied, and box-dyed</p>
CIRCUIT is the leading voice for artist moving image in Aotearoa New Zealand

Recently added works

I Found Water
SJ Ramir

I Found Water

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

I Found Water
Low Tide
Manu Vea

Low Tide (2025)

A contemplation of queer mundanity set in the artists' homes in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland and Tonga.

Low Tide
Cujo 2
Theo Macdonald

Cujo 2 (2025)

Referencing elements of Stephen KIng's original horror story, Cujo 2 reflects on the artists experience of border security in the Covid 19 era.

Cujo 2
M.E. Mahoney House
Sophie Bannan

M.E. Mahoney House (2015)

Documentation of a family home designed by architect M.E. Mahoney.

M.E. Mahoney House
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Writing & podcast

A Pacific person in a purple tshirt looks up to the sky, their face is only half in view. The background is blue skies and palm trees.

Low Tide

Exhibition review
By Dilohana Lekamge · September 29, 2025

Dilohanga Lekamge explores the complex interrelation of faith, identity, and queerness in Manu Vaea's Low Tide (2025), a new film that showed at Enjoy Contemporary Art Space earlier this year.

Low Tide
Five Pasifika males in casual clothing line up against a wall as if in a police line up. One is stepping forward to read from a note in their hand.

Comic Release: John Vea

CIRCUIT Cast 123
Hosted by Joe Jowitt · September 17, 2025

“The smile goes away the longer they experience the work” - John Vea discusses how his practice uses humour to draw audiences into deeper conversations around Pasifika identity.

Comic Release John Vea
A line of six video screens showing a single massive golden fire in a peat swamp

Sam Tozer on VFX and 'Impossible Lenses' in Brett Graham's Whangamārino

CIRCUIT Cast Episiode #124
Hosted by Kathryn Graham · August 11, 2025

How can artists work with visual effects makers? Kathryn Graham speaks to Sam Tozer about his work on Brett Graham's six channel video work Whangamārino.

Sam Tozer
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News and opportunities

A person wearing a call centre headset and appearing to type at a keyboard turns their head to the right, as if suddenly having their attention drawn elsewhere.

Call for Proposals: Masons Screen Summer Writing Commissions 2026

Call for proposals
November 9, 2025

CIRCUIT and Tāhuhu Kōrero Toi Art History at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington invites proposals from students and emerging writers for a new series of writing commissions responding to works for Masons Screen

Call for Proposals: Masons Screen Summer Writing Commissions 2026
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