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 Frontseat - Series One, Episode One
 Artsville

Synopsis

Mercury Lane was a story-driven arts show that generally included a cluster of short documentaries, poetry and musical performances in each hour-long episode. This episode of the Greenstone-produced arts series features Sam Hunt interviewing acclaimed New Zealand poet Alistair Te Ariki Campbell. Campbell discusses his early childhood in the Cook Islands as the child of a Pākehā father and Polynesian mother, and reads a selection of poems. The programme ends with Auckland pianist Tamas Vesmas playing a Debussy prelude at the Auckland Art Gallery.

Credits (9)

 Andrew Bancroft

Andrew Bancroft
Director, Editor

 John Carlaw

John Carlaw
Director

 Philippa Mossman

Philippa Mossman
Producer

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 Greenstone Pictures

Greenstone Pictures

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Added 04 March 2011