272 Willis St/Foostcray Avenue Emma Bugden and Colin Hodson

In May 2004, Transfund NZ approved funding for Wellington's Inner City Bypass, a controversial proposal ever since it was first mooted in the 1960s. Residents of buildings along the bypass route, owned by Transit NZ, began receiving eviction notices shortly afterwards. During the months leading up to film maker Colin Hodson's move from his house at 272 Willis St, the area surrounding his place turned into a demolition site, as buildings around him began to fall. At the same time, a few streets over in Footscray Ave, Hodson's partner and artist/curator Emma Bugden waited out the time until she too would receive a letter of notification for her house. Hodson and Bugden began to record a documentary of Footscray Ave, in what Bugden describes as "an attempt to capture the street as it was really lived - realising we were too late to capture Willis St as it had been, we wanted to make sure we recorded Footscray Ave before it too disappeared."

The resulting two films are shown together as a part, each showing fleeting glimpses of a city in a state of flux.

Click here to read more on the artist's site (Review)

Presented alongside The Gift and the Proper–Frothing the Synaptic Bath