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Survey - Deciding
Survey - Deciding
Television (Full Length) – 1972 Mockumentary
Survey
In the one channel days of the early 1970s, the...
The Tony Williams Collection
This collection showcases the career of NZ screen...
Fool's Gold
Check out some memorable Kiwi leg-pulling in this...
Gliding On
A sitcom view of government bureaucracy
Man of the Trees
Documentary about someone taking direct action to save...
Restoring the Mauri of Lake Omapere
A real life waterway under threat
We're Here to Help
Film about a real life battle with bureaucracy
Country Calendar - Spoofs Special
More television spoofs
Walkshort
More walk shorts
Rally, Like Little Boys in a Man-sized Sport
Another film directed by Tony Williams
Survey - The Day We Landed on The Most Perfect Planet In the Universe
Also directed by Tony Williams
Survey - Getting Together
Another film directed by Tony Williams
Wayne Anderson - Singer of Songs (First Episode)
Another TV blurring of fact and fiction
Water
More eco themed black comedy
Our Nuclear Defence
More topical satire from the 1970s
A Question of Power - The Manapouri Debate
Non fiction waterways controversy
The Waimate Conspiracy
A later mockumentary
Inquiry - Checking Prices, Counting Costs
Another journey into government bureaucracy
The Domino
Another journey into a Kafkaesque bureaucracy
Gliding On meets Borat, as a man pretending to be a fisherman from a fictional town heads to Wellington to find out if any government agency will take action about fish he says are dying in his river. Clad in jacket and tie and walk shorts and walk socks, he traipses the corridors of power which are artfully shot to look like a hell from which he will never escape. His attempts to find someone who can take action yield only a succession of impotent bureaucrats who participate happily but only to explain, often at length, why they can’t actually do anything.
Of all the phobias that inflict mankind, I suppose the most frustrating is the fear of making decisions.– Voice over
Produced by
Pacific Films
Acknowledgements
Presented with thanks to the New Zealand Film Heritage Trust – Te Puna Ataata