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 Three New Zealanders: Janet Frame
 Journeys in National Parks: Westland / Aoraki
 Hinekaro Goes On A Picnic and Blows Up Another Obelisk
 A Summer Place
 Hone Tuwhare
 Mataku - The Fishing Trip (Te Hi Ika)

Synopsis

Gaylene Preston's documentary on writer Keri Hulme — filmed two years after Hulme shot to global fame on the back of her Booker Prize-winning novel the bone people — is both a poetic travelogue of Okarito (the township where she resided for 40 years), and a sampler-box of affable musings on her writing process, whitebait fishing, the supernatural, and the 1200 pages of notes for her next novel, the elusive Bait. Leon Narbey's camera is aptly alert to the magical qualities of the coast, from the resident kotuku to the surf and birdsong peppering Hulme’s crib.

Credits (6)

 Gaylene Preston

Gaylene Preston
Director, Producer

 Jonathan Crayford

Jonathan Crayford
Composer

 Keri Hulme

Keri Hulme
Subject

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Quotes

I’m not quite sure that I’m actually telling stories or simply being the medium through which the story is passed. 

– Keri Hulme

I can think of several of my characters I wouldn’t like to meet walking down the street. 

– Keri Hulme

I'm always very polite to the nuts 

– Hulme, on the fan-mail she's received post-Booker win

I would spend about 20% of my life looking out this window. 'Watching the sea': that's what I'd say I was doing. But really I'm watching [the] theatre inside the head as much as anything ... 

– Hulme on looking out her window at the West Coast

Awards

1987 NZ International Film Festival
Official Selection