Gavin Hipkins' experimental screen narrative, This Fine Island, has been selected for the inaugural edition of Armory Film. Curated by Moving Image, the screenings will take place during the course of the The Armory Show in a dedicated Media Lounge on Pier 94.
Hipkins' film revisits Charles Darwin's journey to the Bay of Islands in 1835, but in his adaption, Darwin's nineteenth-century travel writing in The Voyage of the Beagle becomes a vehicle for present day tourisms, travel romance, and racial othering, against the backdrop of New Zealand's lush landscape.
Image: Gavin Hipkins, This Fine Island , 2012 (production still), 12 mins, 16mm transferred to Digibeta
