Shifting Centre presents CIVIC: Short Film Screenings featuring works by local Te Whanganui-a-Tara based artists Veronica Lyu, Matariki Bennett & Eve Naicker.

Featured Short Films:

"Less Ness" by Veronica Lyu.

Out of your body
Controlled

Happening over and over
Again

Out of time
Nothing
Everything
Never Enough

Waiting Waiting

It feels like you haven’t even started

It’s you.

"Te Kohu" by Matariki Bennett

TE KOHU is the story of 14 year-old Hinehou and her sister, 17 year-old Whetū. In their isolated settlement of Te Ngahere, Hinehou knows Whetū is searching – searching for who she is, for the skin she should truly inhabit, and that she doesn’t belong in this small town. Hinehou comes to learn, it’s not about the place – Whetū doesn’t belong to this world. She belongs to the world of the ethereal Patupaiarehe - the mischievous fairy tribe of the forest mist. But as Hinehou grows to understand her sister's heart belongs with the Patupaiarehe, Hinehou must face the question - can she let her sister go?

"Tied Together" by Eve Naicker

Follows two strangers who paths keep crossing. A boy who never ties his shoes. A girl who starts to notice. As their friendship quietly deepens, something unseen begins to pull them closer, a gentle, inevitable, like a thread tugging through time.

"Notice" by Eve Naicker

Follows a character through a series of ordinary days, highlighting the contrast between their digital focus and the richness of the outside world they're tuned out from. But when an unexpected event disrupts their rhythm, they're forced to put the phone away and for the first time, begin to truly see what's been there all along. The Art of Noticing.

TIME: 5:00PM & 6:00PM

LOCATION: Cinema, Te Auaha (65 Dixon Street, Te Aro, Wellington 6011)

PRICE:

General Admission $10.00
Unwaged $5.00
Aroha Ticket $30.00 (GA + $20 donation)

*Booking fees apply to all tickets*

Shifting Centre are a Tangata Whenua & Tangata Moana artist collective and we acknowledge that we stand, live, create and exist on unceded lands of Indigenous Māori. We also acknowledge Te Ati Awa & Ngāti Toa as Mana Whenua of Pōneke.

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