Legacies: Five Short Films for Cinema

Martin Sagadin, Garden of Clay, 2022, still from digital video, 16 min 12 sec, commissioned by CIRCUIT with the assistance of Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa

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Ukrit Sa-nguanhai, Trip After, 2022, still from digital video, 10 min 14 sec, commissioned by CIRCUIT with the assistance of Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa

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Pati Tyrell, Tulouna le Lagi, 2022, still from digital video, 5 mins, commissioned by CIRCUIT with the assistance of Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa

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Sriwhana Spong, And the creeper keeps on reaching for the flame tree, 2022, still from digital video, 5 mins 3 secs,commissioned by CIRCUIT with the assistance of Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa

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Edith Amituanai, Epifania, 2022, still from digital video, 8 mins 30 secs, commissioned by CIRCUIT with the assistance of Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa

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Artists

Edith Amituanai
Martin Sagadin
Ukrit Sa-nguanhai
Pati Tyrell
Sriwhana Spong

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Legacies features five short artist films for cinema commissioned by CIRCUIT Artist Moving Image and curated by Thai/UK curator and film scholar Dr May Adadol Ingawanij. The project developed from a series of propositions put to the artists by CIRCUIT curator-at-large Ingawanij about the potential meaning and resonance of the term ‘legacies.’

The artist’s personal responses are varied: portrait of a young Pasifika matriarch (Edith Amituanai); a reflection on the cinematic history of Thailand (Ukrit Sa-nguanhai); an artist sculpting clay in their studio (Martin Sagadin); an animation based on a Balinese painting made by the artists grandfather (Sriwhana Spong), and a vivid interpretation of Samoan funeral chants and speeches (Pati Tyrell).