Unsettling, Settling is a 9.01 minute film created by Janine Randerson, Becca Wood and Julieanna Preston. Greg Wood was the videographer and support by Mick Douglas, Karakare Beach.
Watch it HERE.
A tarpaulin body walks with cyclone-damaged whenua (land) chanting to ancient mothers and searching for a place to settle. The journey remembers a Te Kawerau story, set in Te Ao Kohatu, (the Age of Stone), a time when inanimate things could move freely. When Te Ao Kohatu ended, a headland at Karekare named Te Matua and her two children, Te Tokapiri and Te Tokapaoke, became separated and frozen in time; one obedient child at its mother’s feet, the restless child far off in the rising sea.
This film was premiered at the 2025 EcoPerformance Film Festival (https://www.ecoperformance.art.br/), which included showing in Brazil, Argentina and Romania. It was awarded third place in the category ECOPOET(h)ICS.
