Fresh from this year's New Zealand International Film Festival, a new documentary by Shirley Horrocks about New Zealand contemporary artist John Reynolds will screen on TVNZ's Artsville this Sunday.Fresh from this year's New Zealand International Film Festival, a new documentary by Shirley Horrocks about New Zealand contemporary artist John Reynolds will screen on TVNZ's Artsville this Sunday.Reynolds is well-known as the painter, photographer and landscape artist who represented New Zealand at the last Sydney Biennale and was recently made a Laureate by the Arts Foundation of NZ.

This feature-length documentary follows him through an extraordinary year, during which he creates a huge painted work in Sydney called Cloud, collaborates with architects to design a hotel in Auckland, redesigns the iconic NZ Swanndri, tattoos a friend, appears as a character in a popular cartoon series, does Samuel Beckett-style performances in a bizarre camouflage suit, and makes extraordinary large scale landscape works in Otago and Kaipara.

With total access behind the scenes, Questions for Mr Reynolds shows us how the artist conceives and develops his adventurous projects. There is also fascinating personal history, such as the story of John's Diner, the legendary Auckland cafe that he ran in the early '80s, and an account of how he started out as an artist.

TV ONE Sunday 26 August 10.20pm

22/8/07