The arts with moving parts! Mercury Lane is a story-driven arts series that features a rather radical 'front-person free' approach, offering a cluster of short documentaries, poetry and musical performances each week. Reporters (Kim Webby, Sam Hunt, Chris Knox, Colin Hogg and Marcus Lush) occasionally lurk round the edges, serving the stories, but Mercury Lane's tack is to put the artists themselves in the middle of the picture, exploring what makes them tick as much as what makes their art click.
1A Stitch In Time Profile of Auckland based clothing label Strangely Normal.
2Big Sky Country Article on artists living in the Maniatoto, and efforts to refurbish early architecture in Ranfurly. Interviews with writer Brian Turner, singer David McAtamney, Rural Art Deco founder Edna McAtamney, painter Norman Sinclair, and painter/sculptor Martin Sullivan.
3Raewyn Hill: Dancer A profile of a contemporary dancer and choreographer. In 2002 Raewyn was teaching at UNITEC School of Dance and presenting her first solo show. Includes archival footage of When loves comes calling (2001) and White (2002).