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Test Pictures

Test Pictures
Directed by
  • Geoff Steven
  • Denis Taylor
  • Philip Dadson
Written byDenis Taylor
Produced by
  • Erik Braithwaite
  • Geoff Chapple
  • Denis Taylor
  • Don Whyte
Starring
  • Denis Taylor
  • Lee Feltham
CinematographyGeoff Steven
Edited byGeoff Steven
Production
company
Hinge Film Productions
Release date
  • 1975 (1975)
Running time
83 min
CountryNew Zealand
LanguageEnglish
Budget$14,000[1]

Test Pictures, subtitled Eleven Vignettes from a Relationship, is a 1975 New Zealand experimental film showing the failure of a rural commune.[2] It had it's world premiere at the Wellington Film Festival.[3]

Test Pictures was filmed at Hinge Estate in Huia in 1973 with a budget of $14,000. Cast and crew worked for free and lived communally on site.[4][2][5] In order to screen the film the Wellington Film Society paid $500 to create a screening print which was shown at their Wellington Film Festival.[3] It was then screened at the Auckland International Film Festival in July. Director Geoff Stevens says that the audiences were left "perplexed" by the film.[6] A screening at Iran's ABU-SHIRAZ Film Maker's Festival followed later that year.[7]

Cast

  • Denis Taylor as Man - Nick
  • Lee Feltham as Woman - Lindy
  • Francis Halpin as Master of Ceremonies
  • Moira Turner as Pianist
  • Geoff Barlow as Roadworker
  • Dora Warren as Roadworker's Mother
  • Barbara Saipe as Young Girl
  • Mark Elmore as Young Boy
  • Mike Fitzgerald as Storekeeper

Reception

Sam Edwards in the book New Zealand film, 1912–1996 says "Even as an example of experimental cinema, it was not particularly successful, and occasionally feels cumbersome and self-conscious . At the same time, the impetus it gave film-makers as a result of its co-operative base in Alternative Cinema, and the opportunity it provided for exploring the medium, was to have a significant catalystic effect."[4]

References

  1. ^ Martin, Helen (9 September 2013), Feature film – The 1970s film renaissance, Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
  2. ^ a b Martin, Helen (8 August 2014), Feature film – The 1970s film renaissance, Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand, p. 3
  3. ^ a b Shelton, Lindsay (5 November 2021), "The birth of the film festival", Wellington Scoop
  4. ^ a b Martin, Helen; Edwards, Sam (1997). New Zealand film, 1912–1996. Oxford University Press. p. 59. ISBN 9780195583366.
  5. ^ Bieringa, Jan; Dennis, Jonathan (1992). Film in Aotearoa New Zealand. Victoria University Press. p. 67. ISBN 9780864732262.
  6. ^ Stevens, Geoff, Geoff Steven, The New Zealand Film Festival Trust
  7. ^ Dart, William (Winter 1979), "Skin Deep New Zealand Cinema Comes of Age", Art New Zealand

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