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Readings from the poems of James K Baxter trace the poet's life through its various New Zealand locations, and provide a biographical voice in this film by Bruce Morrison (co-written with Dr Paul Millar). Baxter's family and friends discuss the man and his work, and the readings and beautifully shot landscapes fill in the gaps. The film won Best Documentary at the 1998 Film and TV Awards. The opening montage, describing "the chugging noise of masturbation from the bedrooms of the bourgeois" of Auckland, is seminal Baxter.
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Best Director, Factual Programme/Documentary (Bruce Morrison)
Best Editing (Ken Sparks)
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Jacqui Fitzgerald
Posted at 04.26PM - 05.03.2010
Such a powerful testimony of the life and work of JKB, for me it brings the amn, oiet and his work alive once again.