# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Short Films: Leap to the Place of Two Pools
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 23 Jul, 2025 at 08:00 am
- **Event Description**: Leap to the Place of Two Pools

Join us for this special screening of five stunning new short films by Kah Bee Chow, Selina Ershadi, Kite, Sonya Lacey and James Tapsell-Kururangi (Te Arawa, Tainui, Ngāti Porou). Curated by Erin Robideaux Gleeson for CIRCUIT’s 2025 programme of Artist Cinema Commissions.

Taking into account moving image’s traditional emphasis on the visual, Leap to the Place of Two Pools presents five new works by artists who resist or relinquish ocularcentrism through multisensorial knowledge systems. 

In both making and viewing, how to honour what cannot be seen? How can surety and attachment to the two pools—the eyes—leap and transmigrate to other sensing sites within and beyond the boundaries of our bodies?

Leap to the Place of Two Pools is the latest edition of CIRCUIT’s ongoing series in which an international curator is engaged to develop a programme of new artist commissions based in the moving image. 

Its title is adapted in dialogue with Anna Tsing, citing her translation of Meratus Dayak Putir performance.(1) Through poetry, the shaman passes the two gleaming pools, guarded by eyelash swords, into the vast landscape of the body, where the world is expansive and healing is possible. 

With this offering in mind, these works emerge, variably sensing the unseeable known and unknown realms of oral history, memory and dreams.

Curated by Erin Robideaux Gleeson and commissioned by CIRCUIT Artist Moving Image.

More information: https://www.circuit.org.nz/project/leap-to-the-place-of-two-pools


Free Entry
Wednesday 23 July at 6pm
Philip Carter Family Auditorium
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū


(1) Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, 'Beyond the Boundary of the Skin,' in The Realm of the Diamond Queen. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993.

Image credit: Kite with the Wihanble S’a Center for Indigenous AI, Makȟóčhe Kiŋ Oíč’iwa (The Land Paints Itself) (still), Digital video, sound, 2025.
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Christchurch
- **state**: CA
- **country**: New Zealand
- **location**: Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū
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- **full address**: Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, 312 Montreal St, Christchurch Central, Christchurch 8013, New Zealand, Christchurch

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