Online screening of Internationally-acclaimed filmmaker and choreographer Daniel Belton’s film Astrolabe-Pounamu. 

Astrolabe - pounamu draws inspiration from the act of carving and engraving stone, bone - and from printing, impressing. In Chinese culture, the snake is the most enigmatic animal among the zodiac animals. Astrolabe - pounamu enters into a dialogue with methodologies developed by early Asian and Pacific Island astronomers, and suggests a philosphical ideology of the movement of celestial bodies - acknowledging the oneness of all life. 

The film draws inspiration from early Pacific Island and Asian cosmology and astronomy and references the serpent-shaped constellation of the Chinese Chunyou Star Chart, engraved in the year 1247, as dancers, glide through space

Watch online here (from 29 January 2025 to 16 February 2025)