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October 6, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Wellington Film Society: Preview – China’s Van Goghs (October 8)
The Wellington Film Society rolls on. Last week it was Mustang. This week it’s back to documentary, with China’s Van Goghs. One of the most affecting moments in China’s Van Goghs unfolds in a small art gallery, where the documentary’s protagonists and their friends eagerly gather to watch the 1956 Vincent van Gogh biopic Lust for Life. Their […]Archive
September 6, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 132 – Peter Black
Welcome to episode 132 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Here I had a conversation with Peter Black. He’s a Wellington-based photographer. I didn’t know him, until we had this conversation. But I knew his work. I’ve known his work for a while and it’s had a profound impact […]Archive
May 10, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 115 – Fane Flaws
Welcome to episode 115 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. Here’s a chat I had with Fane Flaws. This was a great conversation – and it was a long time in the making. I hadn’t met Fane, we’d corresponded, I grew up listening to Blerta and The Crocodiles, was […]Archive
March 14, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
David Byrne: American Utopia
David Byrne American Utopia Nonesuch It’s almost incredible to think it’s been some 14 years between David Byrne solo albums. That’s because he’s busy writing operas, staging shows, sending out e-newsletters, publishing books, collaborating with old pals (Brian Eno) and new friends (St. Vincent) and scoring soundtracks. He’s doing anything he can to not agree […]Archive
February 9, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 102 – Marie Le Lievre
Welcome to episode 102 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and Le Petite Chocolat. This one is a chat with visual artist Marie Le Lievre. She’s a Christchurch-based artist. A painter, primarily. Though her current show at Bartley & Company in Wellington features drawings and paintings.Archive
July 19, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Bill Direen – A Memory of Others: Film
Bill Direen: A Memory of Others Director: Simon Ogston Bellbird Pictures Simon Ogston is making the New Zealand music/arts docos where you can’t believe your luck – your favourite cult act, finally, is being correctly, lovingly examined. At a previous film festival it was his take on The Skeptics – and his work returns to […]Archive
June 12, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 166 Marvel Super Heroes
Growing up in the 60s I think I probably first discovered them through black and white reproductions in English weekly comics like Smash or Whizzer and Chips. They reprinted early Fantastic Four, Thor and Daredevil issues and I really took to them – particularly the Jack Kirby artwork with the strange anatomy and alien landscapes.Archive
May 24, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Kickstart Her Art: Help Annabel Alpers To Make Another Album
For about a decade Annable Alpers was Bachelorette. Under that moniker she made great music. She made three studio albums, an EP and a single. She was signed to Drag City (US label), she toured with Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Low, Bill Callahan (Smog), Animal Collective, Magnetic Fields and Stereolab. She put on hypnotic shows as […]Archive
July 4, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Peggy Guggenheim – Art Addict: DVD
Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict Director: Lisa Immordino Vreeland Dakota Group/Fischio Films/Submarine Entertainment/Madman Following on from the terrific Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel (about her husband’s grandmother) here director Lisa Immordino Vreeland turns her eye to another strong, individualistic woman who put her stamp entirely on the world she occupied; we move from fashion […]Archive
June 19, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 116 The Paintings – Part Two
I spent a couple of years working on a certain trilogy of films molding and casting props and while I found the work fascinating and challenging it was also all-consuming and creatively frustrating – self-expression didn’t really come into it. My main saving grace in that way was the Spines which I managed to keep […]Archive
May 23, 2016 by Simon Sweetman