Location: | New Zealand; California; Tahiti |
Subject: | Women in Art; Polynesia |
Length: | 46 minutes |
Format: | 1/2 inch VHS; streaming |
Hue: | Color with B&W sequences |
Year Released: | 1997 |
Series: | |
Director: | Sima Urale |
Producer: | Vincent Burke, Clifton May; Top Shelf Productions: New Zealand on Air |
Distributor: | Top Shelf Productions; New Zealand on Air: NZ on Screen |
Library Code: | UHM AV/C VIDEOTAPE 17151 |
Description: | A look into the kitschy world of black velvet painting. Features the internationally famous black velvet painter Charles McPhee and perspectives of Pacific Islanders such as Reverend Mua, a Samoan minister and poet, who "rarely gets to meet topless women in his line of work." Interviews with artists, collectors, dealers and scholars in New Zealand, California, and Tahiti. |
Record No: | 2257 |
Resources: | Distributors's List |
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