FLIGHTLESS, BILL HAMMOND'S CURE FOR BEING KIWI WITH IAN HUGHES, WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY ALAN D'ARCY ERSON - DOCUMENTARY DVD

2ND HAND DVD - VERY GOOD CONDITION, NO VISIBLE SURFACE MARKS TO DISC, GUARANTEED.

• "Bill Hammond is one of the best and most distinctive New Zealand artists, living or dead. In 1990 on a trip to the uninhabited Auckland Islands far to the south-east of the South Island. Hammond encountered a land of birds, an echo of the unique bird-dominated ecosystem all New Zealand once was. Soon he was painting bird people: melancholy replacements for the dozens of species and millions of individual New Zealand birds killed off by humans. Waiting on half dead branches in the rain, winged but almost never flying, staring an ddangerously sexy, they are easily recognisable. At war with his wife and disturbed by a chance encounter with a Hammond bird painting, Kvin McManus (Ian Hughes - Lord of the Rings, Topless Women Talk about their Lives) goes on a journey of self discovery through the extraordinary painted worlds of the artist and real people whose lives have been affected by Hammond's works. Part drama, mostly documentary, Flightless is an original take on the work of a unique artist at the height of his powers"--Container.
• "Kevin and viewers are informed throughout the film by brilliant writer and Dunedin Public Art Gallery curator Justin Paton. Paton once famously described Bill Hammond's work as apocalyptic wallpaper. His plain language insights coupled with stunning images of the work map the territory of Kevin's journey, the film and Hammond's marvelous contribution to New Zealanders' view of themselves."--TVNZ.