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To celebrate the final weeks of the exhibition Jeffrey Harris: The Gift start the evening with this section from a 1983 artist profile series. Harris talks about his quest for intensity and impact, and how violence both attracts and repulses him. He also discusses two of his influences — the surrounding landscape (particularly the wilds of Otago Peninsula and Seacliffe, and the older parts of Dunedin) and photographs, ranging from family portraits to newspaper pictures, which provided the figures that populated his expressionistic works.

Finish the evening with the documentary Pleasures and Dangers, which focuses on six New Zealand women artists whose careers were on the rise in the early 1990s. They work in a variety of mediums, explore ambiguity and subversion, and question gender roles. Photographer Christine Webster works with models, lighting and costume to create rich, theatrical images. Lisa Reihana delivers "radical statements" via light-hearted animation. Filmmaker Alison Maclean talks about the inspiration she found in Rotorua and channeled into her debut feature Crush. Also featured: artists Merylyn Tweedie, Alexis Hunter and Julia Morison.

Courtesy of Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision