Poi E
1984 4m Music video
- Pop
- Te Reo
From the Album Poi E (1984)
This uplifting video is as famous as the chartbusting song. Accompanied by breakdancer Joe Moana for a tour of Pātea and surrounds, the Pātea Māori Club are captured "bopping and twirling like pīwakawaka" at the local marae, in Wellington's Manners Mall, and on Pātea’s main street, where milk tankers and sheep trucks pass by the Aotea canoe remembrance arch. So does the song's creator himself: Dalvanius Prime does a pūkana out a car window. In 2010 'Poi E' re-entered the charts thanks to Taika Waititi hit Boy. A documentary on the song was released in 2016.
Key Cast & Crew
PC
Paul Carvell
Co-Director
NP
Ngoi Pēwhairangi
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