
Flicks, Liam Maguren
With the 2011 feature When a City Falls, 2014 mini-series Hope and Wire, and numerous short films based on the disaster, the horror of the Christchurch earthquake has been covered extensively on-screen. While we’re still waiting on the completed rebuild, The Art of Recovery casts its gaze on an unexpectedly uplifting transitional period that risks being overlooked: the moment that saw the community’s creative spirit ignite between ‘the ashes’ and ‘the phoenix’.
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