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Brian Brake at the NFU

Brian Brake at the NFU

  • An apprenticeship in "painting with light"

    Te Papa’s Lissa Mitchell on Brake’s formative period at the National Film Unit in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Read >

  • Brian Brake: Lens on the World

    This Te Papa exhibition is a major survey of Brake’s life’s work, from Monsoon to Mitre Peak. Find out more >

  • NZ On Screen NFU Collection

    For nearly 50 years the Film Unit filmed everything from wartime newsreels and tourism promos to historical TV epics. View here >

  • Archives New Zealand

    Archives New Zealand are the custodians of the NFU archive, including the films Brake made while working there. Find out more >