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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.
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
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.
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Between what we see and what we know: Emily Parr’s Through the time spiral: ʻOli ʻUla
Between what we see and what we know: Emily Parr’s Through the time spiral: ʻOli ʻUla
Hana Pera Aoake explores the poetic and generative role of whakapapa—a means of creating layers—in Emily Parr's Through the time spiral: ʻOli ʻUla (2021).
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