The Regent Theatre
home Search Engine
What's On

AUTOMORPHOSIS

USA | 2008
77 minutes
Director/Screenplay/Photography/
Editor/Producer/Narrator:
Harrod Blank
Music: Original music by Inspector Double Negative & the Equal Positives,
Zilla, Spam Allstars
With: Harrod Blank, Uri Geller, Hyler Bracey, Rebecca Caldwell, Howard Davis, Leonard Knight

DigiBeta

Censor rating exempt

Maybe cars always express their owners, so let’s be thankful for the colourful individuals who take that expression into their own hands. Documentarian and art-car creator Harrod Blank celebrates some of the visionaries, artists and cheerful eccentrics who have turned their cars into elaborate mobile works of art. Blank furthers the obsession he elaborated in Wild Wheels (NZIFF1993) in this affectionate, funny, completely delightful sequel. He doesn't try to oversell his subject (unlike an awful lot of recent docs), but gets his idea – that most of these cars are really extensions of the rest of these people's eccentric lives – across with little fuss. He lets them talk about their lives and show us their cars. His affection for the gregarious personalities on display is contagious: just like them he wants to obliterate industrial conformity and show off a little individual splendour.

“Blank and his creative cohorts have made the automobile a remarkable form of self-expression.” — San Francisco Independent Film Festival

 

“It’s a current and universal parable on the very dark

 

Back to Movie Schedule or visit the World Cinema Showcase website

About Us
Check out the History of the Regent Theatre with a quick tour through our timeline and history of this unique Dunedin building.
Hire us
Looking for a venue to host your conference or next work social party. Look no further than The Regent Theatre, based in the heart of the city and close to off street parking.

More Information

BECOME A REGENT THEATRE MEMBER and receive special benefits as well as support the ongoing work of the Otago Theatre Trust in maintaining and developing the Regent Theatre as a premiere venue for Dunedin.
     

return to the Homepage.

Check out What's On at the Regent Theatre.

Learn about us here.

Contact us via our online email form.

View the Gallery to see previous performances.

All content copyright The Otago Theatre Trust except where third party copyright or intellectual property applies.

Operated by the Otago Theatre Trust on behalf of the People of Dunedin and Otago. The Regent Theatre aims to provide a professional performance venue, catering for public and private use daily.

Email to a friend

Disclaimer: All efforts are made to ensure information is correct. All information is subject to change. The Regent Theatre and the Otago Theatre Trust are not responsible for the supply of accidental false information or to changes to events. No refunds or exchanges will be given on tickets or service fees except as required by law.

For bookings and enquires ring the service desk on
03 477 8597

Hours are Monday to Friday 9am - 5:30pm,
Saturday 10:30am - 1pm

Join the What's On Email List and keep up to date
with what's happening at the Regent Theatre
and around town.

Back to Top

 

     
CREATED 2009 WWW.ECHO-POINT.CO.NZ - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED