Description |
1 videodisc (DVD) (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in |
Summary |
Merata Mita, the second Maori and the first Maori woman to direct a feature film, sees Mauri as being a parable 'about the schizophrenic existence of many Maori in pakeha society -- a probing enquiry into concepts of culture using birth, marriage and death'. The themes of birthright and identity are woven into personal and community relationship throughout the film, ambiguously in the figure of Rewi and most fully through the old aunt Kara, who represents female power imparting a sense of the life force (Mauri). Perhaps the aspect of the film which pakeha (white) audiences have found challenging is Mita's intention of replacing the familiar cause and effect of film narrative with what she describes as 'layering' of the story which is based on a certain oral tradition. In place of the thrust of a 'what happens next' plotline the viewer is invited to peel away layers of meaning to reveal the depth of interrelationships |
Credits |
Director/Producer/Writer: Merata Mita |
Cast |
Anzac Wallace, Eva Rickard, James Heyward, Susan D. Ramari Paul |
Notes |
No rating given |
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DVD. Region unspecified |
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In English and Maori |
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Available to Deakin University staff and students only |
Subject |
Maori (New Zealand people) -- Drama.
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SUBJECT |
New Zealand -- Social life and customs http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116353 -- Drama.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001612
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Genre/Form |
Feature films.
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Video recordings.
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Drama.
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Author |
Mita, Merata, 1942-2010.
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Wallace, Anzac, 1943-
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Rickard, Eva, 1925-1997.
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Heyward, James.
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Ramari Paul, Susan D.
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New Zealand Film Commission.
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Awatea Films.
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Hauraki Film Enterprises
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