This week's Artsville on TV ONE on Sunday night features two New Zealand documentaries, The Silence Is Over: Taonga Puoro and Terry Stringer: A Profile.

Artsville brings New Zealand art and artists to the screen with a series of vivid documentaries from some of New Zealand's best and independent producers, directors and writers.This week's Artsville on TV ONE on Sunday night features two New Zealand documentaries, The Silence Is Over: Taonga Puoro and Terry Stringer: A Profile.

Artsville brings New Zealand art and artists to the screen with a series of vivid documentaries from some of New Zealand's best and independent producers, directors and writers.The Silence Is Over: Taonga Puoro

A documentary about Taonga Puoro: treasured Maori instruments and their place in modern music. Traditionally the instruments were played not for entertainment, but were played more for the spiritual elements of birth, life, and death.

This film explores the argument about whether they have, in modern times, evolved to being used as entertainment in Western orchestral music, pop and rock, and if taboos about where these instruments are played should prevent this modern usage.

Terry Stringer: A Profile

From the irregular Profiles series on mid-career artists, directed by Bruce Morrison, this documentary introduces Terry Stringer and his sculpture, and gives unique insight into his techniques. Following a newly commissioned work for an Auckland collector, it also compresses the months of effort and many technical processes he uses, from clay to finished bronze, into a fascinating stream of images which illuminate the man and his work.

11/12/08