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 Te Rerenga Wairua
 Moa's Ark
 More Issues - A Compilation
 Once Were Warriors
 Channelling Baby
 Restoring the Mauri of Lake Omapere

Synopsis

This short, written and directed by Christine Parker (Channelling Baby) takes an allegorical look at the creative process. A writer (Rima Te Wiata) has a korero with a trickster spirit guide Hinekaro (voiced by Rena Owen), and conjures worlds from the words she inks on a page. In her imaginative struggles she’s visited by a ruru owl and her younger self, and other creatures are brought strikingly to life via special effects (beetles from a book, an eel hiding in a toilet bowl). Hinekaro was adapted from a 1991 short story by Booker Prize-winner Keri Hulme.

Credits (15)

 Christine Parker

Christine Parker
Director, Writer

 Caterina De Nave

Caterina De Nave
Producer

 Ian Harrop

Ian Harrop
Actor

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Related Titles (7)

 Channelling Baby

Channelling Baby

Film, 1999 (Trailer)

Also directed by Christine Parker

 Restoring the Mauri of Lake Omapere

Restoring the Mauri of Lake Omapere

Film, 2007 (Full Length)

Also features native eel footage

 Moa's Ark

Moa's Ark

Television, 1990

Many creatures in Moa's Ark feature in Hinekaro

 More Issues - A Compilation

More Issues - A Compilation

Television, 1991 (Excerpts)

Also stars Rima Te Wiata

 Once Were Warriors

Once Were Warriors

Film, 1994 (Trailer, Excerpts, and Extras)

Also features Rena Owen

 Te Rerenga Wairua

Te Rerenga Wairua

Short Film, 1984 (Full Length)

More Māori spirit travels

 Kai Purakau - The Storyteller

Kai Purakau - The Storyteller

Film, 1987 (Excerpts)

A Gaylene Preston doco on Keri Hulme

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Included in:

 NZ Book Month Collection

NZ Book Month Collection

Curated by NZ On Screen Team
Added 04 March 2011

Quotes

Where do words go after the sound of them has died? 

– From the film's narration

It’s this bloody monument - dedicated to Sir Somebody ... he reckons he discovered this place, brought DDT in ... 

– The Apprentice (Rima Te Wiata) considers the obelisk

Awards

1996 Clermont Ferrand International Film Festival
In Competition

Festivals include
1996 Melbourne International Film Festival, 1995 Sitges International Film Festival, 1995 Hawaii International Film Festival, 1996 Seattle International Film Festival.