Auckland Live Digital Stage
The large screen in Aotea Square comes alive in March with vibrant and exciting displays, short films, motion graphics, videos, and a myriad of visual delights that will fire your imagination and capture your attention.
Featuring work from both local and international artists, all works are FREE.
| Waiata Anthems
Fri 8-Sat 9 March, 12.00pm-4.00pm Sing along to the words from popular songs recorded in te reo Māori for Waiata Anthems.  |
| Wild Wild Life 8 March, 6.00 - 9.00pm, 15 March, 5.00pm – 9.00pm & 22 March, 6.00pm – 9.00pm How is Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland City described outside of official city maps? What other kinds of wayfinding exist beyond our known pathways? These questions and more will be answered in a series of short artist films mapping out the city across the CBD. Wild Wild Life will launch on the Auckland Live Digital Stage, as well as in other inner-city locations, to create a walking map of the CBD. |
| Cascades
Sat 16 March, 8.15pm |
| Dragon Short Film
10 March, 6.30 - 7.30pm Dragon is a new dance-theatre film featuring artists from Japan and Aotearoa and created by Good Company Arts. The appearance of the celestial Dragon invokes an ancient connection to the multiverse. This game-like cinema opens alternative pathways, expanding geometries of the cube and hexagon, morphing spatial portals through the fusion of dance, music and digital arts. |
| BEAM
Beam 7-24 March from 8pm Created by David Eversfield, eight searchlights will swirl, dance and light up the Tāmaki Makaurau skyline every night of AKLFEST2024. Come into Aotea Square with a blanket and relax with your friends gazing at the lights searching the sky above. On selected nights there will also be a soundtrack to complement these spectacular lights. |
| Unitec Short Films
17 March 6.30pm, 22 March 4.30pm, 23 & 24 March 6.30pm Come and relax in Aotea Square with your blanket and friends for free film screenings, animations and music videos created by talented UNITEC School of Creative Industries graduates, plus selected films from Ngā Pakiaka, a collective of rangatahi filmmakers aged 12 – 25 from across Aotearoa. Featured films are: |
