Form Next to Form Next to Form is a book made from stills from Nova Paul’s experimental 16mm film This is not Dying (2010) that was made at the film-maker’s marae Maungarongo in the north of New Zealand’s North Island. Using an early cinematic optical printing process of three-colour separation Paul's films render the landscape in prismatic shards of technicolour. In this book stills are printed using RGB colours designed to echo the optical process of the three-colour separation film itself.

The traditional Maori love song ‘Whakarongo Mai,’ played by famed Maori show band figure and Kaumatua Ben Tawhiti is played on slide and steel guitar for Paul's film and reconfigured here by Karl Steven on 7" LP.

Two pieces of writing are included: Karl Steven’s liner notes on musician Ben Tawhiti; and Gwynneth Porter and Nova Paul's essay ‘The Virtues of Trees’ that grew from conversations over a year, spanning ideas of sovereignty, resistance, film analysis and art history, genealogy and care of self and the world around us.

The publication has been made possible with support from the Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa, and the School of Art and Design Research Fund, AUT University.

Texts by Nova Paul, Gwynneth Porter and Dr Karl Steven

Published by Clouds and Dent-de-Leone
ISBN: 978-0-9864628-7-0

Softcover
68 pages + 7-inch vinyl (1:12 Records)
41 colour images
English

Edition: 1000
Dimensions: 180 x 300 x 16mm
Individually shrinkwrapped

NZD$35

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