Test Pictures
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| Written by | Denis Taylor |
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| Cinematography | Geoff Steven |
| Edited by | Geoff Steven |
Production company | Hinge Film Productions |
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Running time | 83 min |
| Country | New Zealand |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $14,000[1] |
Test Pictures, subtitled Eleven Vignettes from a Relationship, is a 1975 New Zealand experimental film showing the failure of a rural commune.[2] It had it's world premiere at the Wellington Film Festival.[3]
Test Pictures was filmed at Hinge Estate in Huia in 1973 with a budget of $14,000. Cast and crew worked for free and lived communally on site.[4][2][5] In order to screen the film the Wellington Film Society paid $500 to create a screening print which was shown at their Wellington Film Festival.[3] It was then screened at the Auckland International Film Festival in July. Director Geoff Stevens says that the audiences were left "perplexed" by the film.[6] A screening at Iran's ABU-SHIRAZ Film Maker's Festival followed later that year.[7]
Cast
[edit]- Denis Taylor as Man - Nick
- Lee Feltham as Woman - Lindy
- Francis Halpin as Master of Ceremonies
- Moira Turner as Pianist
- Geoff Barlow as Roadworker
- Dora Warren as Roadworker's Mother
- Barbara Saipe as Young Girl
- Mark Elmore as Young Boy
- Mike Fitzgerald as Storekeeper
Reception
[edit]Sam Edwards in the book New Zealand film, 1912–1996 says "Even as an example of experimental cinema, it was not particularly successful, and occasionally feels cumbersome and self-conscious . At the same time, the impetus it gave film-makers as a result of its co-operative base in Alternative Cinema, and the opportunity it provided for exploring the medium, was to have a significant catalystic effect."[4]
References
[edit]- ↑ Martin, Helen (9 September 2013), Feature film – The 1970s film renaissance, Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
- 1 2 Martin, Helen (8 August 2014), Feature film – The 1970s film renaissance, Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand, p. 3
- 1 2 Shelton, Lindsay (5 November 2021), "The birth of the film festival", Wellington Scoop
- 1 2 Martin, Helen; Edwards, Sam (1997). New Zealand film, 1912–1996. Oxford University Press. p. 59. ISBN 9780195583366.
- ↑ Bieringa, Jan; Dennis, Jonathan (1992). Film in Aotearoa New Zealand. Victoria University Press. p. 67. ISBN 9780864732262.
- ↑ Stevens, Geoff, Geoff Steven, The New Zealand Film Festival Trust
- ↑ Dart, William (Winter 1979), "Skin Deep New Zealand Cinema Comes of Age", Art New Zealand
External links
[edit]- Test Pictures at IMDb
- TEST PICTURES at Ngā Taonga