Masons Screen

Supported by Wellington City Council and programmed by CIRCUIT Artist Film and Video Aotearoa New Zealand, Masons Screen presents a new artist’s work each month.

The screen is located on Masons Lane – a pedestrian walkway between The Terrace and Lambton Quay.

Current video

Hana Pera Aoake, I saw the mountain erupt (2023)

Digital video, 6 mins approx

2 May – 19 June 2023

Thinking through Morgan Godfrey's 2017 personal essay I saw the mountain erupt: A Kawerau childhood, this film considers the deep histories of maunga, geology and awa through the resilience of the local tuna (eels).

Hana Pera Aoake (Ngaati Mahuta, Ngaati Hinerangi, Ngaati Raukawa, Tainui/Waikato, Ngaati Waewae, Waitaha) is an artist based in Ōtepoti Dunedin.

Past projects

• Leala Faleseuga - Vessel: Dissolution | It's in the milk (2023)
• Matthew Cowan and Jana Müller – Background Scenes (2022)
• Xi Li – Prosperity or Emptiness (2022)
• Cat Auburn – Crying Cliffs (2010)
• Richard Frater – Sweet Apparition (2008)
• Yona Lee – Propositions (2021)
• Arapeta – Te Orokoomaa (2022)
• Suzanne Tamaki – Manu does Matariki (2022)
• Bruce Barber – Spectres of Marx (2015)
• Sione Faletau – Kupesi o Mason Screen (Patterns of Mason Screen) (2022)
• Jamie Berry – Wai whakaika (2022)
• Gabriel White – Scenic Journey (2022)
• Louie Zalk-Neale, Mana tipua tuku iho – Transcestor (2021)
• James R Ford – Infinite Monkey Syndrome (2012)
• Jae Hoon Lee – A Leaf (2003)
• Louisa Afoa – Pink Flamingo (2016)
• Phil Dadson – Am I Dreaming? (2020)
• David Cowlard – béton brut (2015)
• Kauri Wharewera – Te kahui o Matariki (2021)
• Steve Carr – Watermelon (2015)
• Julia Holden – #LunaMediates (2020)
• Brit Bunkley – Downbreak on 1, Upbeat on 2 (2013)
• Sarah Hudson – Harirū (2018)
• Annie Bradley – The Sea in Us (2020)
• Martin Awa Clarke Langdon and Rebecca Ann Hobbs. Kaitiaki: Qiane Matata-Sipu – 'Maungataketake' (2019)
• Brydee Rood – 'Everything Rises' (2020)
• Darcell Apelu – 'To Secure My Place I Must Leave' (2019)
• Tanya Te Miringa Te Rorarangi Ruka (Ngati Pakau, Ngapuhi) – 'Kōhatu Tipua (Supernatural Stones)' (2020)
• Tom Hinton – 'Self-raising Sea' (2019)
• Arapeta Ashton and Wai Ching Chan – 'Pātai/Maan Taai 問題' (2020)
• Emma Wallbanks – 'Mercurial' (2019)
• Fleury and Jackson – 'One who goes quickly' (2019)
• Rangituhia Hollis – 'Across the face of the moon' (2019)
• Rachel O'Neill – 'Not My Autobiography?' (2019)
• Jamie Berry, Pikihuia Haenga and Leala Faleseuga – 'Breaking the Glass Ceiling' (2018)
• Florence Wild – 'Cast Movements: Leitmotif' (2017)
• Layne Waerea – 'Māori Lane: Oct 08, 2012' (2012)
• Ziggy Lever – 'Beam Splitting' (2017)
• Cinton Watkins – 'Feedback '(2010)
• Judy Darragh – 'Tunnel of Love' (2003)
• Kate Walker – 'Cloudship' (2018)
• Bent – 'Art for no-one' (2014)
• John Chrisstoffels – 'Ritornello' (2018)
• Miranda Bellamy – 'Drip, release, in complete memory (2018)'
• Talia Smith – 'The light between two points' (2018)
• Martin Rumsby – 'Sojourns' (2018)
• Dilohana Lekamge – 'Pilot - Gilmore Girls: Season 1, Episode 1' (2018)
• Elizabeth Pointon – 'A Guide To: Effective Implementation of Self-Service' (2017)
• Aydriannah Tuiali’i (Ngā Puhi/Ngāti Hāmoa),Kōwhai (2017)
• Sam Hamilton – 'More of less Rubbish' (2017)
• Sandy Gibbs – 'Lighting an old Flame '(2017)
• Mark Harvey – 'Let's Go! '(2017)
• Claire Harris – 'Beseated '(2017)
• Christina Read – 'The Brain My Brain' (2017)
• Lara Lindsay-Parker – 'Sad @ the beach' (2017)
• Matilda Fraser – 'The Eight Hours Plan' (2017)
• Guillaume Cailleau – 'Funktionslust' (2017)
• Anna Iti – 'All the way to Te Rerenga Wairua' (2017)
• Sriwhana Spong – 'Learning Duets' (2012) / – 'Beach Study' (2012)
• Melissa Irving – 'being-(t)here '(2012)
• Robyn Jordaan – 'The Present Continuous '(2016)
• Mike Ting – 'Kind of Blue' (2016)
• Sam Norton – 'Untitled 3' (2015)
• Aliyah Winter – 'Eli Jenkins Prayer' (2015)
• Hugh Chesterman – 'i am who i am (who am i?)' (2016)
• Chris Ulutupu – 'Ladies' (2016)
• Kate Woods – 'Water Feature' (2016)
• Mike Heynes – 'Location!… location?' (2016)
• Sarah Jane Parton – 'The Best Trick (Everyone Smiles at Hotel Smile)' (2016)
• Bridget Reweti – 'Mana Tū, Mana Toa, Mana Ake Ake' (2015)
• Gabrielle Amodeo – 'Slow and mournfully; slow and sad; slow and solemnly' (2013)
• Caroline Johnston – 'Songs about PLEASE REMOVE' (2014)
• Heather Hayward – 'Les Mills Gym' (2014)
• Erica Sklenars – 'Popsicle' (2011)
• Jordana Bragg – 'How to water the roses (3)' (2015)
• Laura Duffy – 'Food fat insanity' (2015)
• Terry Urbahn – 'Don't Die Until Later' (2013)
• Denise Batchelor – 'Stranded' (2015)