CREDITS
Artist/Director
Sam Hamilton
Cinematographer
Ian Powell
Co-Producers
Lani Felthan
Lauren Waudé
Mark Williams
Chiara Giovandi
Mia Ferm
Featuring
Ioane Papali’i
Funding
Creative New Zealand
Executive production
Wallace Arts Trust
Additional Production Funding
CIRCUIT Artist Film & Video Aotearoa
Distribution
CIRCUIT Artist Film & Video Aotearoa
Cast
Ioane Papali’i
Lauren Waudé
Dean Roberts
Kasina Campbell
Oscar Dowling
Jon Bywater
Louise Menzies
Andy Hamilton
Metusela Toso
Mosiana Webster
Nikki Upoko
Jasmine Day
Lisa Clarke
Tyla Davis
Ezra Williams
Jackson Hobbs
Stephen Bain
Chelsea Jade Metcalf
Josh Rutter
Sam Hamilton
Singers
Chiara Giovandi
Holland Andrews
Dan Bryant
Andrew Miller
Sam Hamilton
Music & Sound
Sam Hamilton
Muffin Seeks Sunship - Gong Ensemble
John Goff
Editing
Sam Hamilton
Narration
Sam Hamilton
Mere Tokorahi Boynton
Muagututia Kelemete Fu'a
Film processing
Reversal Cine Auckland
Yale Film and Video
Digital Scans
LIGHTPRESS Seattle
ELAM School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland
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ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Sam Hamilton is an inter-disciplinary artist from K’rd, Aotearoa New Zealand currently living in the US.
Over the last decade and a half, Hamilton has worked substantially across - and through - a range of converging and creatively interbreeding mediums and critical trajectories.
His practice is highly modular and critically and aesthetically hybridized and nomadic. Although an underlying ecology often scores a works broader relational orientation, autonomous works are produced as - or through the mediums of - film and video, music and sound composition, performance, photography, installation and sculpture and writing.
He has worked professionally and independently on multiple projects and in multiple contexts from working in art schools to intentionally spending months in the Amazon rain forests of Brazil, Colombia and Peru to research intersections between art and sound ecology; from regularly composing and touring with legendary choreographer Lemi Ponifasios internationally renowned MAU Dance Company to touring DIY noise show venues across the US playing fuckd up noise pop music; from developing commissioned installations for sculpture parks to working on a project inside an active volcano crater to creating and directed experimental live media programs for the New Zealand International Film Festival.
He has presented his works everywhere from art museums to the Australian outback desert, abandoned Greek school buildings, NYC night clubs, underground carparks, boats, music festivals, art galleries, cinema’s, live radio, live TV, italian opera houses, house parties, punk clubs, numerous published recordings, CD’s, journals, and - of course - the humble but formidable internet.
Significant recent projects include a major experimental feature film, produced over 3 years in NZ, Samoa and the US shot on 16mm film and composing the music for a major intercultural collaborative dance production in Japan directed by a Maori female choreographer.
Hamilton has been the recipient of the Art Foundations prestigious New Generation Artist Award as well as multiple grants from the arts council of New Zealand Creative NZ, The Wallace Arts Trust, CIRCUIT, Creative Communities, SOUNZ Community Commissions, and the also very prestigious (by virtue of its ruthlessly DIY, community driven and artist initiated fund raising structure) the Starving Artists Award.
He has also been offered artist residencies at Mamori Sound Project, Brazil; Extrapool Brombron series, The Netherlands; the Goethe Institut Cultural Ambassador residency program, Berlin; ESXLA artist in residence program, Los Angeles; and a week at Oikia Karapanou Studios, Aegina Island, Greece.
Artist/Director
Sam Hamilton
Cinematographer
Ian Powell
Co-Producers
Lani Felthan
Lauren Waudé
Mark Williams
Chiara Giovandi
Mia Ferm
Featuring
Ioane Papali’i
Funding
Creative New Zealand
Executive production
Wallace Arts Trust
Additional Production Funding
CIRCUIT Artist Film & Video Aotearoa
Distribution
CIRCUIT Artist Film & Video Aotearoa
Cast
Ioane Papali’i
Lauren Waudé
Dean Roberts
Kasina Campbell
Oscar Dowling
Jon Bywater
Louise Menzies
Andy Hamilton
Metusela Toso
Mosiana Webster
Nikki Upoko
Jasmine Day
Lisa Clarke
Tyla Davis
Ezra Williams
Jackson Hobbs
Stephen Bain
Chelsea Jade Metcalf
Josh Rutter
Sam Hamilton
Singers
Chiara Giovandi
Holland Andrews
Dan Bryant
Andrew Miller
Sam Hamilton
Music & Sound
Sam Hamilton
Muffin Seeks Sunship - Gong Ensemble
John Goff
Editing
Sam Hamilton
Narration
Sam Hamilton
Mere Tokorahi Boynton
Muagututia Kelemete Fu'a
Film processing
Reversal Cine Auckland
Yale Film and Video
Digital Scans
LIGHTPRESS Seattle
ELAM School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland
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ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Sam Hamilton is an inter-disciplinary artist from K’rd, Aotearoa New Zealand currently living in the US.
Over the last decade and a half, Hamilton has worked substantially across - and through - a range of converging and creatively interbreeding mediums and critical trajectories.
His practice is highly modular and critically and aesthetically hybridized and nomadic. Although an underlying ecology often scores a works broader relational orientation, autonomous works are produced as - or through the mediums of - film and video, music and sound composition, performance, photography, installation and sculpture and writing.
He has worked professionally and independently on multiple projects and in multiple contexts from working in art schools to intentionally spending months in the Amazon rain forests of Brazil, Colombia and Peru to research intersections between art and sound ecology; from regularly composing and touring with legendary choreographer Lemi Ponifasios internationally renowned MAU Dance Company to touring DIY noise show venues across the US playing fuckd up noise pop music; from developing commissioned installations for sculpture parks to working on a project inside an active volcano crater to creating and directed experimental live media programs for the New Zealand International Film Festival.
He has presented his works everywhere from art museums to the Australian outback desert, abandoned Greek school buildings, NYC night clubs, underground carparks, boats, music festivals, art galleries, cinema’s, live radio, live TV, italian opera houses, house parties, punk clubs, numerous published recordings, CD’s, journals, and - of course - the humble but formidable internet.
Significant recent projects include a major experimental feature film, produced over 3 years in NZ, Samoa and the US shot on 16mm film and composing the music for a major intercultural collaborative dance production in Japan directed by a Maori female choreographer.
Hamilton has been the recipient of the Art Foundations prestigious New Generation Artist Award as well as multiple grants from the arts council of New Zealand Creative NZ, The Wallace Arts Trust, CIRCUIT, Creative Communities, SOUNZ Community Commissions, and the also very prestigious (by virtue of its ruthlessly DIY, community driven and artist initiated fund raising structure) the Starving Artists Award.
He has also been offered artist residencies at Mamori Sound Project, Brazil; Extrapool Brombron series, The Netherlands; the Goethe Institut Cultural Ambassador residency program, Berlin; ESXLA artist in residence program, Los Angeles; and a week at Oikia Karapanou Studios, Aegina Island, Greece.
