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“ It was great to show the work and acknowledge its ongoing contemporary resonance .I'm so glad others are getting on the IN JOY train. It's important for people to understand lineages of resistance. “ May 19 2025
 Mark Williams. Director and FounderWe are the leading voice for artists of film and video New ZealandCIRCUIT. https://www.circuit.org.nz/Te māngai mō ngā mahi toi kiriata o Aotearoa


I was very impressed by your intersection of traditional and experimental documentary filmmaking. The narrative is easily followed by a traditional audience while the style leans experimental and engages even the most artistically aggressive viewers. May 12 2025
-- Clay Westervelt, SOC Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
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 Still. IN JOY(1980 ) workshop moment with facilitator Maggie Eyre.
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 Film Two Film 1 IN JOY(1980)
 I perceive that Collective creativity is possible Maggie Eyre During the project, it was a pleasure seeing how much Maggie Eyre, a facilitator of mime and performance, achieved when she agreed with me to invite several women into a class to wish to be part of a film experience. Maggie and I agreed to make a a set of workshop activities. I moved up to Auckland to a flat for three months. I got a room to rent with her to live in Grafton, just by the bridge opposite the hospital. and we got underway with building a working schematic. Jane Zusters, artist/ photographer, lived in the flat below. I met her. I hired Jane to be my stills photographer immediately. Maggie Eyre threw excellent tea parties in Grafton. A pre-filming workshop. of three days of clowning in early 1980., was one of the research activities I did with Maggie. Bridget Brandon. Director of Drama Action Theatre from Sydney 1980. was the teacher ( See Appendix ii in the eBook Life, sometime after the horse was harnessed. Coming soon.) The whole documentary was shot with a ratio of 60% off camera and 40% on camera. This was key so as to give time and space in respect of individual spaces for the participants to willingly work, make explorations and cogitate upon insights at the end of each day. I got the set of women we filmed put up in a lodge in the Waitakeres for four nights. We fed them and put then in a van back and forward to a hall in Parnell. Participants had to feel comfortable with the camera. They contracted to stay in the the whole four day of film shooting experience.
Maggie loved seeing outcomes for the participants. She got a lot of feelings out of it, she said. Stephanie Beth.
stills. Facilitator Maggie Eyre in session running a workshop for women in play, mime and performance in the film IN JOY(1980) Produced by Stephanie Beth.