In Nicolas Roeg’s Gothic horror film Don’t Look Now (1973), a grief-stricken father mourning the death of his young daughter is haunted by a figure in a bright red jacket. While restoring a medieval church in Venice, he is tortured by flashbacks of his daughter’s drowning, eventually laying down his tools to pursue the red […]
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On 24 March 2023, a large anti-trans rights rally was scheduled in Te Ngākau Civic Square in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington. Situated on the edge of the Square, and at the heart of public debate, City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi often takes precautionary measures during events such as this. The front doors of the […]
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Gate 1 The empty airport is one of the most haunting and defining images of our time. As the coronavirus response enforced travel bans and closed borders, images of deserted airports have come to hold a set of often wildly contradictory ideas: the fragility of human existence, the failure or success of government responses to […]
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AARON LISTER 