The moving — Films
“Best First Time Director” at the Japan International Film Festival, Toronto Indie Filmmakers Festival, Munich New Wave short film festival and Seoul International Short Film Festival.
Winner of ‘Best Nature film” and ‘Best Sound Design” at the LA Experimental Dance and Music Festival
Official Selection for Roma Short film Festival,Experimental Dance and Music Film Festival LA, Tokyo International short film festival, Maoriland Film Festival, ImagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival, Kia Mau Festival, Earth Beat Festival NZ and Matriarchs Festival Canada.
5 Movement-Based FilmS by Body Island
Te Hā Te Kā is an award-winning contemporary Indigenous dance film series that explores breath, heat, and relational intelligence through the meeting of body and landscape, drawing from Te Ao Māori and somatic practice.
These works sit between choreography and cinema. Movement is treated as narrative.
Te Hā Te Kā is available for:
Festival presentation
Multi-screen installation in gallery contexts
Educational licensing for tertiary institutions
Community screenings with artist talk
Paired presentation alongside live performance works
For programming and licensing enquiries, please contact Body Island.
“Mā te tokomaha Kā te ahi”
"By the many will the fire be kept burning, with all creative juices blending together"
— Tūi Matira Ranapiri-Ransfield
Director: Kelly Nash
Concept and Producer: Nancy Wijohn
DOP/Editor: Joshua Faleatua
Costume design: Daniel Williams
Music composer: Eden Mullholland
Performers: Nancy Wijohn, Taane Mete
Hero Photography Images: Māhia Jermaine Dean aka kaos13
Make-up: Hailee Tamore
Photography: Emma Cosgrove
Dodecahedron Sculpture: Chris O’Connore
Moon Sculpture: Magdalena O’Connor
Mātauranga Māori advisor and vocalist: Tūī Matira Ranapiri-Ransfield
Vocalist: Milly Kimberly Grant
