Nova Paul
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Doctoral Candidate
Nova Paul (Te Uriroroi, Te Parawhau, and Te Māhurehure ki Whatitiri, Ngāpuhi) is a filmmaker and artists from Aotearoa New Zealand.
Drawing from her Ngāpuhitanga (ancestry) Nova’s films create an image of everyday self-determination. Using early cinematic film processes and experimental film practices and weaving traditional stories and indigenous knowledge she considers the poetics and politics of place to create an image of tino rangatiratanga (Māori sovereignty). In her technicolour films, colour separation techniques explored ways in which film could picture wairua (spirit) layering whakapapa (genealogy) to imagine de-colonial thought. Her recent B&W 16mm films are hand-processed in plant-based developer, using the leaves of the trees filmed to create a film developer. The filmic outcomes are not so much about trees but by trees, exploring ways in which photosynthesis, film making, and spirit, are intertwined and where the mauri (life force) is revealed.
Nova Paul’s films have screened throughout Aotearoa New Zealand, in all major galleries including: Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Wellington City Gallery, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū and in Australia Melbourne Museum, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Artspace Sydney. She has presented films in the New Zealand Film Festival,
Oberhaussen Film Festival, Germany, London Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Recontres Internationale,
George Pompidou Centre, Whitechapel Gallery UK and Artists' Films International at the Venice Biennale.
Nova is a Senior Lecture teaching Post-Graduate and Undergraduate Visual arts studio, Cinematic Arts and moving-image, Visual arts theory and kaupapa Māori research. Her writing and art practice draws from Te Ao Māori knowledge, experimental film making and fourth wave film discourse, She advises across the arts sector on art education and toi whenua and is and has been in governance roles Trustee for her hapū and is Hearewa member, Māori advisors to Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.
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The research considers our whanaungatanga relationships and whakapapa connections to ngā rākau and ngāhere. This has led to the creation of a plant-based 16mm film developer, replacing the environmentally damaging Kodak D-76 chemicals.
View projectKia rere te hekatai kei runga kia panonitia i te rehutai ¬– the transformative power of creative flows, tracing the spirals of mauri, wairua and ha
The research considers our whanaungatanga relationships and whakapapa connections to ngā rākau and ngāhere. This has led to the creation of a plant-based 16mm film developer, replacing the environmentally damaging Kodak D-76 chemicals.
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