Aspiring revisits six eventful weeks in 1949. Led by cameraman Brian Brake, an all-star art team - James K. Baxter as scriptwriter, composer Douglas Lilburn and painter John Drawbridge (all under 30; Drawbridge was 18) - attempt to make a ‘cinematic poem' about an ascent of Mt Aspiring. Baxter's notes on the trip evolved into his famous poem In the Matukituki Valley. Aspiring features a lost script, Drawbridge's recollections and a surprise ending. View original footage of the never-completed film after the excerpts.
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