I Want to be Joan screened at CITY GALLERY WELLINGTON 1993 Wellington sixteen years after it premiered in New Zealand at the Christchurch Town Hall. This was after the film toured the country by Stephanie as a private distributor, in 1978/9 Right.The image of Joan Lyes in I Want to be Joan, was chosen by Jan Beiringer. The film programme that year, in an exhibition "Alter / Image: Feminism and Representation in New Zealand Art 1973-1993" City, Galley, was substantial. Films were showed along with painting, prints, installations and sculpture. Curators. Deboragh Lawler -Dormer and Christina Barton. 1993. I was a guest at the CIRCUIT and AUT Documentary group symposium. The Time of the NOW, curated by Dr Erika Belsom, Kings College, UK. I went downstairs to this during the exhibition by Ruth Buchanan, of her BAD VISUAL SYSTEMS. 2018. It became the winner of the Walters Prize.2018*
https://www.academia.edu/38487276/The_Time_of_the_Now_Collected_Papers_and_Discussion_from_the_2018_CIRCUIT_Symposium#:~:text=The%20Time%20of%20the%20Now%20was%20conceived%20and%20presented%20by,artists%20employ%20to%20test%20media2019 …what has been happening today across some of the presentations is the articulation of a vision of what documentary could or should be, or how it could relate to an audience. That doesn’t always happen. In fact, it often doesn’t happen.


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Right on Bookshelf. Stephanie's first film I WANT TO BE JOAN (1977) a book cover image for the catalogue for City Gallery, Wellington. 1993.
Particpants in IN JOY. (1980) Producer/Director. Stephanie Beth. Still by Jane Zusters
Dr Erika Balsom
https://www.circuit.org.nz/writing-and-podcast/e-book-the-time-of-the-now
* Mixed media the ' explores the relationship between language, identity and body.' In 2017, Buchana exhibited at Adam Gallery. Curted by Christina Barton. https://www.adamartgallery.nz/exhibitions/archive/2016/bad-visual-systems/image-gallery
I listen to my interview of 1984 from the Lita Barry vitrine of audio cassettes