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Unwilling to learn the collective side-step of the rugby-mad small town New Zealand of his birth, life was never going to be sweet for dancing boy Douglas Wright. Of the multiple hauntings in Leanne Pooley’s film, the most fascinating is Wright’s cruel possession of his own body. His extraordinary story is written on his musculature as, under the force of his imagination, it performs astonishing, self-destructive dances. Off stage he rages too: great loves, wars with the critics and eloquent loathing of the country that provides the raw material for his work. In Haunting Douglas Wright’s life and art collide. Pooley and Wright make their own fascinating dance around the insights, hatreds and loves that may or may not sustain a body and an artist in the face of death.

New Zealand - 2003 - 1 h 15 mn - Betacam Digital - Colour

Director Leanne Pooley Script Leanne Pooley Camera John Cavill, Simon Raby Sound Eugene Arts, Terry King Editing Tim Woodhouse Music David Long

Production Spacific Films, 9 Lemington Road, Westmere, 1002 Auckland, Nouvelle-Zélande Tél : +1 64 2148 0698 Fax : +1 64 9360 0795 E-mail : leanne@spacific.co.nz

Sales Spacific Films, 9 Lemington Road, Westmere, 1002 Auckland, Nouvelle-Zélande Tél : +1 64 2148 0698 Fax : +1 64 9360 0795 E-mail : leanne@spacific.co.nz