By Kate Rodger
After months of work based on a lifetime of experience, filmmaker Vincent Ward releases his latest big project – and not a live actor, rolling camera or clapper board is in sight.
“We’ve got 10 screens here, 35 video installations – if you have a bird for example, it could fly around the room,” says Mr Ward on his new installation.
Mr Ward says his films have been a starting point for fresh exploration in his new mixed media work.
“I’ve sort of taken essences from certain films. [This work] is called kin, it’s about a spiritual guardian found on his street naked. In context with this [work] it has a slightly different meaning – it’s about vulnerability,” says Mr Ward.
The artist shot fresh images, both sill and moving, like one he filmed underwater at Kelly Tarlton’s Aquarium in Auckland.
Mr Ward's new creations are on show at New Plymouth's Govett Brewster art gallery and the artist says it was through his painting that he initially found his way into filmmaking.
His visual flair and style was immediately apparent and won him instant international recognition.
Vigil was the first of two of his films to be nominated for the prestigious Palme d'Or at Cannes... and the first New Zealand film ever to be recognised by the Cannes selectors for the award.
After that he headed to Hollywood and his film What Dreams May Come starred Robin Williams and won an Oscar for the iconic imagery of its visual effects.
His latest creative endeavour will who in New Plymouth until the end of February before heading to Auckland in July next year.
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