Room 2

[Leon] Narbey first turned to film merely as a way of documenting his installations but found that colour and lighting needed to be rethought in film terms.

– Film historian Roger Horrocks on Leon Narbey's first short films, in Horrocks' 1984 booklet Leon Narbey - New Zealand Film Makers at the Auckland City Art Gallery

I was interested in light and the control of light ... [I set up] rooms with programmed lights, and the dimensions of those spaces tended to change according to the way the light struck or reflected.

– Leon Narbey on his early experimental films, in 1984 booklet Leon Narbey - New Zealand Film Makers at the Auckland City Art Gallery

It started out as an attempt to document a temporal event or structure and then it became filmmaking.

– Leon Narbey on his early films Room One and Room Two, Newsreel 43, 1999