Sun, 30 Jun
|Dome Cinema and Bar
The Road To Patagonia
The Road to Patagonia is a stunning, intimate, and unflinching series of love letters within a documentary—first, a love between two people, and second, a love between humanity and the Earth.
Time & Location
30 Jun 2024, 6:30 pm
Dome Cinema and Bar, 38 Childers Road, Gisborne 4010, New Zealand
About the event
We follow Matty Hannon on an incredible solo adventure to surf the west coast of the Americas by motorbike from the top of Alaska to the tip of Patagonia. But deep in the wilderness - alone with the wolves and the bears – Matty’s plans unexpectedly fall to pieces. After losing everything and on the cusp of quitting, he meets the girl of his dreams, a permaculture farmer named Heather Hillier, who throws caution to the wind and sells her urban farm to buy a bike of her own. Together, riding south, the duo meet with Zapatista rebels, Amazonian shamans and Mapuche leaders whose salient words crack the adventurers’ cultural veneer. The theme of deep ecology underpins the entire film, visually communicated through exquisite cinematography and emotional verité sequences. Shot over 16 years, the result is an adventurous exposé on the more-than-human world, offering a physical and spiritual odyssey to better understand our place in Nature.
Bar & Pizza from 5 pm
Film 6.30 pm
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