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Marlon Williams: Ngā Ao E Rua - Two Worlds
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Wed 22 Oct 6:30 PM
The Piccadilly: Cinema 1
General Admission
Unclassified 15+
92 MinsBeloved for his haunting voice and genre-defying songwriting, Marlon Williams has built a career on straddling borders - between country and crooner, Māori and Pākehā, past and future. In Ngā Ao e Rua – Two Worlds, the acclaimed Aotearoa artist turns inward.
Gently observational and rich with landscape, the film follows Williams as he begins work on his first album sung entirely in te reo Māori. While he does not speak the language fluently, Williams describes te reo as something that has always unlocked emotion, a way of feeling rather than explaining. What unfolds is not a grand statement of cultural reclamation, but something quieter and more resonant.
This is a portrait of an artist listening deeply, searching for shape and sound that honour both inheritance and instinct. Set across the windswept coasts and quiet spaces of Aotearoa, Ngā Ao e Rua is a meditation on voice, land, and creative risk. In tracing this artistic process, both grounded and searching, the film captures a musician not just returning to his roots, but tuning more precisely to the frequencies that have always been present.
Gently observational and rich with landscape, the film follows Williams as he begins work on his first album sung entirely in te reo Māori. While he does not speak the language fluently, Williams describes te reo as something that has always unlocked emotion, a way of feeling rather than explaining. What unfolds is not a grand statement of cultural reclamation, but something quieter and more resonant.
This is a portrait of an artist listening deeply, searching for shape and sound that honour both inheritance and instinct. Set across the windswept coasts and quiet spaces of Aotearoa, Ngā Ao e Rua is a meditation on voice, land, and creative risk. In tracing this artistic process, both grounded and searching, the film captures a musician not just returning to his roots, but tuning more precisely to the frequencies that have always been present.