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Michael Smither: Life and Death

55m Documentary 2013

As Smither paints or inspects his work he chats to it, casually providing straightforward and illuminating commentary on technique and intention. Here he revisits two unfinished paintings and, in an interlude, sits down at the piano to score a lament written by a friend for the Pike River miners. The first painting – bursting with the Life of the title – builds on a sketch in oils, transcribing a vividly remembered event he observed while strolling down the nearby beach at Otama.

Director

Tony Hiles

Producer

Tony Hiles

Director of Photography

Tony Hiles

Editor

Daria Malesic

Sound

Paul Wedel

Language

English

Country

New Zealand

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