K'Rd Stories

Overview

K'Rd Stories is ten short films written and directed by creative Kiwi filmmakers. Made for the web, the films will have their public debut on the street, tying in with First Thursdays. The ten shorts will be screened in a trail of locations along Karangahape Road, including a bakery, laundromat, barbershop and a handful of gallery spaces – an accurate cross section of K'Rd spaces.

K'Rd Stories are fictional cultural documentation that explores life on Auckland's most famous strip. The ten films aim to be a time capsule of K'Rd, a representation of here and now, tying multiple stories into familiar narratives. Interestingly, the stories are a cohesive collection with overlapping elements, characters and locations. Premiering on December 3, the films will then live online.

The films include Domonic Hoey (Tourettes) and Eddy Fifield's The Event, a young man's attempt to piece together the memories of a particularly rough night, in which he has been accused of a disgraceful lewd act; Jane Sherning Warren's Put Your Hands Together Please, a young woman's struggle against a pretentious boyfriend who hogs the limelight at their joint art show; Flat 3's Roasanne Liang enlists the girls for Sugar Hit, which sees a social cup of tea turn into a strange occurrence as the sugar takes an unusual effect.