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334 Vincent Ward, and Graham Tetley. "First Blood Last Rites: Second Draft Screenplay." Wellington: Vincent Ward Productions, 1982. ---. "First Blood Last Rites: Third Draft Screenplay." Auckland: Vincent Ward Productions, 1982. ---. "First Blood Last Rites: Fourth Draft Screenplay." Auckland: Vincent Ward Film Productions, 1982. Vigil scripts from private collection of Roger Horrocks. Timothy White. "Application to the Creative Film Fund of the Queen Elizabeth 2 Arts Council." 1977. Private collection of Roger Horrocks. Vincent Ward. E-mail to Stan Jones, 27 May 2002. Audiovisual Material Interview with David Giler. Alien 3 Special Edition DVD. 20 th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2004. Sam Neill and Judy Rymer. Cinema of Unease, A Personal Journey by Sam Neill, 1995. Kaleidoscope interview with Vincent Ward. TV1, 25 June 1984. Vincent Ward. Lecture to Film Students at Auckland University. Rec 29 March. cassette recording, Auckland, 1985. What Dreams May Come. Special edition DVD, Polygram Video, 1999.
335 1975 The Cave (as scriptwriter and director) 30 minutes, 16mm colour and B&W Camera: John McWilliams Incomplete; exists only in double-head form. 1976 Boned (as director) Stills animation, 6 minutes, 16mm B&W Camera: Vincent Ward Double-head copy only. 1976 Void (as director, actor and scriptwriter) 20 minutes, half-inch video Camera: John McWilliams. 1977 Ma Olsen (as director) 15 minutes, 16mm colour Camera: Euan Frizzell, Vincent Ward Made with the assistance of the Education Department and TV1. 1977 Samir (as cameraman) 6 minutes, 16mm colour Director: Timothy White Double-head copy only. Vincent Ward A Filmography 1978 A State of Siege 52 minutes, 16 mm colour Producer: Timothy White Screenplay: White and Ward based on a novel by Janet Frame Camera: Alun Bollinger Additional Photography: Mike Rathbone Assistant Director: Geoff Murphy Film Editor: Chris King Sound: Don Reynolds, Malcolm Moore Costumes: Gwen Kaiser Continuity: Christine Hancox Music: John Cousins Cast: Anne Flannery (Malfred Signal), Peggy Walker, John Bullock, Jennifer Kahn, Peter McCauley, Maime White, Dorothy McKegg. Made on a budget of approx. $22,000 with the assistance of the Queen Elizabeth Arts Council II, the Education Department and the Interim Film Commission Awards/Major Festivals: Golden Hugo Award (for best student film) at the Chicago Film Festival 1978; Gold Medal Special Jury Prize at the Miami Festival 1978; included in the New Directors Section of the San Francisco Film Festival 1980.
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31 self-determining original, moreo
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33 erupting volcano is sublime to a
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35 was not strictly speaking, natur
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39 supreme value of the personal se
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Gothic Influences 41 The relationsh
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59 Were Warriors (Lee Tamahori, 199
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63 parallels between the farm where
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65 than her, on the train to Jerusa
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79 my father’s stories that were
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85 film theories and various moveme
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103 Malcolm Moore, an experienced s
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113 negative-matcher for the “con
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115 director and White as producer
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117 stead. In many ways [it] perhap
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119 pointed out, has the effect of
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121 The next morning, Malfred waste
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123 Figure 2: Ending of A State of
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125 night is not yet over. Malfred
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127 magazines around the country (s
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129 film was praised for its evocat
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131 many of the new wave of New Zea
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133 Filmmakers, painters, craftsmen
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135 protagonist, instead of acting
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137 Chapter 4 In Spring One Plants
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139 major shaping force on New Zeal
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145 series) but about spirituality
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153 essential footage”. After the
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157 have been made if I’d waited
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161 working order yet in an act sym
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163 Bilbrough also claims that due
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165 most appropriate, accurate and
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167 my van pull up. Niki had thrown
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169 traditional values is at least
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171 critical response to the film i
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173 the ability of the artist to cr
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175 Chapter 5 Vigil Ward’s involv
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177 they were the only solid basis
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179 just how much goes on the floor
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181 to the film in that, just befor
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183 initially hostile reaction to h
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185 They got the tractor going and
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187 between the scenes shot from To
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189 its side, only to hoist it vert
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191 Figure 4: Ending of Vigil. An e
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193 He shows her his world, the wor
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195 with the foreigner. Through sex
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199 This made him reluctant to comp
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Visual Style 205 In terms of the de
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207 example, the shot of Elizabeth
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209 except possibly for the ballet
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211 than bread and butter. I think
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213 world - albeit seen through Eur
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215 Medieval Odyssey. This would re
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217 The idea for The Navigator orig
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219 Atoll in the South Pacific, was
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223 Ward’s intention was not, how
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225 heaven but “a vision of hell
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231 shoot was lengthy by Australasi
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233 constraints on the film […].
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237 Ward explained that: “I alway
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239 nineteenth-century mining music
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241 Figure 6: Storyboard of The Nav
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245 “a sort of Pilgrim’s Progre
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249 production, in Australia it is
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251 retelling the story of The Navi
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255 belief and unbelief, faith and
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267 Canada, they were required to u
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269 situation. 867 In an interview
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273 an Art Film […]. And as we we
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What Dreams May Come 281 Ward’s n
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Page 329 and 330: 321 Elgar, Dietmar. Expressionism.
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