Waifilmfest Presents Ma Olsen - In Spring One Plants Alone
230 Queen Street, Masterton, Wairarapa
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Kia ora! Wairarapa Film Festival (Waifilmfest) proudly presents this double-bill documentary screening with special guest Vincent Ward.
Vincent Ward Film Retrospective:
Vincent is a Greytown-born, internationally acclaimed filmmaker who will join us for all four days of the Wairarapa Film Festival as we present a retrospective of his films.
Short Documentary
Ma Olsen (1977)
G | 15 Mins | Documentary
Director: Vincent Ward
A Documentary About a Remarkable Elderly Woman Living in the Country, Outside Greytown. With a Great Love of Animals and an Intuitive Understanding of Their Health, She Lives with Numerous Cats, Hens, Roosters, Sheep, and Others. – Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision.
Ma Olsen Is the Earliest Surviving Film by Vincent Ward. A Lost and Forgotten Film That Has Recently Been Fully Restored and Digitised by the Film Preservation Team at Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision. Ma Olsen Will Have Its First-ever Screening at the Wairarapa Film Festival 2024!
Short Documentary
In Spring One Plants Alone (1980)
G | 45 M | Documentary
Director: Vincent Ward
An Aged Woman Lives with Her Fully Grown and Wholly Dependent Son.
This Vincent Ward Film Is a Rare View of an Enclosed World Where an Year-old Woman, Alone, Is 'the Burdened One'. Filmed over a Period of One and a Half Years, This Emerges As a Haunting and Powerful Portrayal of Their Life Together, a Life of Ritual and of Their Survival." - Nzfc
Awards:
Silver Hugo, Chicago Film Festival 1980
Grand Prix Cinema Du Reel 1982
Film Courtesy of Te Tumu Whakaata Taonga New Zealand Film Commission.
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