Apple Pie
Apple Pie is a new feature length art film by New Zealand artist Sam Hamilton shot over 3 years on super 16mm film with Samoan dance artist Ioane Papali'i in Aotearoa New Zealand, Samoa, and an astrophysics observatory atop a remote mountain in the Central Oregon high plain desert.
With its ten semi-autonomous, yet systemically correlative lines of inquiry – each taking its conceptual departure from objects of our solar system -Apple Pie is best approached as a relational architecture to inhabit rather than a linear narrative to follow.
A map rather than a script.
A cinematic ecology to playfully yet critically explore the ontological fabric of who – and how- we are in relation to the universe, and the mechanics of its existence.
A constellation of new materialist and situationist meditations; sub-atomic choreographies; cognitive meta-objects; photonic sculptures; remappings of political meridians and other imaginatively charged ceremonial homage’s to the world; to being; and to the vital agencies of their intersection.
A new view of the night sky.
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Sam HamiltonDirectorParasitic Fantasy Band, Blue Tide Black Water, MAU Dance Company,
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Sam Hamilton, Mark Williams, Lauren WaudéProducerCIRCUIT Artist Film & Video Aotearoa
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Ioane Papali'iKey CastMAU Dance Company
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Project Type:Experimental, Feature, Other
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Genres:art film, contemporary art, performance, critical, astronomy, physics, relational aesthetics, 16mm film, avant garde, noise, expanded ecology, science, temporal sculpture, Tim based arts, essay, speculative inquiry
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Runtime:1 hour 22 minutes
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Completion Date:July 14, 2016
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Production Budget:46,000 NZD
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Country of Origin:New Zealand
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Country of Filming:New Zealand, Samoa, United States
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Language:English
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Shooting Format:super 16mm film
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Aspect Ratio:1:85
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Film Color:Black & White and Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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New Zealand International Film FestivalAuckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, New Plymouth
New Zealand
July 15, 2016
Home country premier, Southern Hemisphere premier
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Portland Art MuseumPortland
United States
April 1, 2017
North America -
Seattle Film ForumSeattle
United States
April 8, 2017
Washington -
Panel LALos Angeles
United States
April 27, 2017 -
Bread & SaltSan Diego
United States
April 21, 2017 -
GRAY AREASan Francisco
United States
April 30, 2017 -
Holland ProjectReno
United States
April 29, 2017 -
Ace HotelPalm Springs
United States
April 23, 2017 -
Thousand LightsJoshua Tree
United States
April 19, 2017 -
CLOSE UPLondon
United Kingdom
May 10, 2017
European -
Queensland Film FestivalBrisbane
Australia
July 10, 2017
Distribution Information
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Circuit Artist Film & Video AotearoaCountry: New Zealand
Sam Hamilton is an award winning inter-disciplinary artist from K’rd, Aotearoa New Zealand currently living in the US.
Over the last decade and a half, Hamilton has worked substantially across, and through, a range of mediums and critical concerns that have converged to form a highly modular and hybridized practice that incorporates film and video, photography, sound, composition and music, writing, performance, installation and sculpture.
He has worked and collaborated on projects as broad as composing for the Lemi Ponifasio / MAU Dance Company to researching bio-acoustics and relational art in the Amazon jungles of Brazil, Peru and Colombia; from working inside active island volcanoes to an abandoned high school in central Athens; from performing in the Australian Outback Desert to Manhattan contemporary art spaces; from developing commissioned works for sculpture parks to creating photo series, pop records, situationist sound walks, video installations, several short experimental film works and a recent feature length art film shot on 16mm film in the South Pacific ocean.
He is the recipient of the Art Foundations New Generation Artist Award; multiple grants from CNZ, Wallace Arts Trust, CIRCUIT, Creative Communities and SOUNZ; The Starving Artist Award, several artist residencies in the Netherlands, Brazil, Berlin, the US and Greece.