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In the late 1960s Graeme Cowley and Michael Heath were university students, making films around Wellington. Today they can look back on a long career in film (Cowley shot Utu and Smash Palace, while Heath wrote Moonrise and made A Small Life). Cowley later restored three of their early shorts, collectively naming them after the flat the pair had shared with fellow filmmaker Rex Benson. On the Mud is an irreverent study of a student anti-Vietnam War protest. Heath stars in fantasy And So Began the Day, while dapper Erskine Hewitt gets beaten up in Inky Godfellow, the only scripted film. Cowley writes about the films here.
