Our top twelve picks of 2016's New Zealand International Film Festival.

The Pantograph Picks: NZIFF 2016

Best Worst Podcast: 2016 NZIFF wrap-up (Pt II)

Eleanor Woodhouse reviews NZIFF highlights from both sides of the Atlantic

The NZIFF in Brief: Through Europe, and Beyond

The Pantograph Punch publishes urgent and vital cultural commentary by the most exciting new voices in Aotearoa.

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Doug edits tv and film, plays drums for Climate Change, wrote and directed the feature film 

, and in 2014 got his MA in Creative Writing at the IIML. He's also unhealthily obsessed with film and music and has been writing about both for most of his adult life. Follow him on Twitter 

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Jacob Powell has been reviewing film, writing on cinema and other topics both online and occasionally in print since 2005. He also works as an Auckland-based university librarian specialising in digital AV media and research collections. Follow him on Twitter 

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With the New Zealand International Film Festival at an end, we dive into the collective consciousness of three minds who've been addled by twenty-four days of mind-bending cinematic ecstasy. Join Doug Dillaman and Jacob Powell – joined by 

 film writer David Larsen – as they go head-to-head for the Best Worst Podcast wrap-up of the Festival.

Part one of this two-part wrap-up sees the team go deep on absurdist German socio-political comedy, muse on the glorious strangeness of finding Kristen Stewart in the midst of a fashion-rich French ghost thriller, and extol the joys, drama and enigma of New Zealand cinema on offer this year.

Listen to Part II of our wrap-up podcast here

Join Doug Dillaman and Jacob Powell – joined by Metro film writer David Larsen – as they go head-to-head for the Best Worst Podcast wrap-up of the Festival in 2016.

The Pantograph Punch team reflect on 14 years of continuous publishing as a stalwart arts media journal (are we allowed to say this about ourselves?), and our choice to go on hiatus.

Long Live Pantograph Punch, Forever

Mya Morrison-Middleton

Te Rā, the only remaining Māori sail, has temporarily returned home. Mya Morrison-Middleton visits Te Rā, asking questions of its origins and future, while highlighting the work of those who are actively reviving Māori sails.

Opening Portals with Our Hands: On Te Rā, the Māori Sail

Matariki Williams

What if Pākehā were subjected to the same colonisation as Māori? Matariki Williams travels into the sci-fi world of 'Turncoat' - where an all-too-familiar narrative of colonisation plays out amongst aliens and humans.

A State of Disconnection: The Human Alien Relationship of Turncoat

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Tunmise Adebowale

Tunmise Adebowale finds warmth and unexpected connections between wooden carvings of twins from her Yoruba whakapapa, and Ōtepoti-artist Kate Fitzharris’ works at Dunedin Public Art Gallery.

Looking at Things as a Whole

Stacey Kokaua 

Pip Laufiso was born and raised in Ōtepoti and her contributions to Māori and Pacific arts in this city have spanned decades. Stacey Kokaua reflects on how Pip influences a community of creatives in a city not often recognised for a brown arts culture.

Pip Laufiso: Living and Breathing Pacific Arts in the Deep South 

From the Springbok Tour, to the Vietnam War, to the occupation of Palestine, Matariki Williams delves into how the arts have been, and can be, used to express solidarity and protest.

Art is a Salve

Mya Morrison-Middleton reflects on the career of renowned Māori artist Robyn Kahukiwa, and her latest exhibition 'Tangata Whenua', which showed at Season Aotearoa in Auckland and Christchurch's Centre of Contemporary Art.

He Toka Tū Moana a Robyn Kahukiwa

Gabriella Brayne

Litia Tuiburelevu

Gabriella Brayne and Litia Tuiburelevu publish this essay, taken from a wider research project on Pacific Peoples and the Criminal Justice system in Aotearoa New Zealand, written with Liz Lotoa, Isabella Ieremia and Hugo Wagner-Hiliau. Their research calls for abolition and an ending to carceral capitalism, envisioning emancipatory past futures for Tangata o le Moana and the globe.

What Shall We Build on the Ashes of a Nightmare?

Tom Denize

Is cruising a form of time travel, a doorway into a pocket of Queer time, or something else entirely? Tom Denize unpacks the heat and magnetism of cruising spots.

Waterlilies Sucking Mud

Briar Pomana

Briar Pomana (Ngāti Kahungunu, Rongomaiwahine, Ngāti Rakaipaaka) falls down the enticing crochet rabbit hole of artists Lissy Robinson Cole and Rudi Robinson, reflecting on the role ringatoi Māori play in our current realities and beyond.

Wharenui Harikoa is what dreams are made of

Emele Ugavule

Is the demand for intimacy co-ordinators, choreographers and directors just colonialism rebranding itself to undermine our sense of collective morale and personhood? In asking for collective responsibility in storytelling, Emele Ugavule pulls forward Indigenous conceptualisations of body sovereignty from an iTaukei worldview. 

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