Tilt to the Sun

Winter is going. This impressionistic take on spring in Aotearoa focuses on details of regeneration, from the mountains to the sea. Director Ron Bowie and cameraman Grant Foster capture signs of the season: ice melt like tadpoles under snow grass, gannets nesting on their Cape Kidnappers tenement, fern koru unfurling, kōtuku and royal spoonbills perched in Ōkārito trees like Dr Suess characters, willow buds and kōwhai flowers. And of course, lambs and daffodils. The camera aptly obeys the title to end. Patrick Flynn (Don’t Let it Get You) composed the score. 

A last frost of flowers blooms on silent trees, and lakes lie quiet in the pause between two seasons.

– From the narration

Key Cast & Crew

Ron Bowie

Director

Geoffrey Scott

Producer

Oxley Hughan

Producer

Grant Foster

Camera

Ron Skelley

Sound

Bernard Kearns

Narrator