Jack Body

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Arts Laureate Jack Body, OMNZ, has composed for opera, gamelan orchestra, film, and America’s Kronos Quartet. In 1974 he created the soundtrack for Uenuku, the first film with all-Māori dialogue. He followed it with iconic soap Close to Home. Body’s award-winning collaborations with director Vincent Ward include scoring Ward’s atmospheric breakthrough Vigil, and 2008‘s Rain of the Children, with John Gibson.