(Filmmaker in person)

The program director of this festival once knew someone who called himself “a filmmaker without a camera.” Translation: he was a dabbler in found footage. The director of Mr. Reynolds describes its subject, who is anything but a dabbler, as “a painter without a paintbrush.” Translation: “he works with a range of unlikely materials from dictionaries to spray guns to native trees.” This fun and freewheeling documentary tracks a year in the life of a leading contemporary New Zealand artist as he turns his mind and hands to painting, photography, architecture, tattooing, apparel design, performance, and the very landscape of his country. If there are any answers forthcoming from Mr. Reynolds by the end of Questions, they are to be found in his art.

(New Zealand, 2007, 65 min.) – G.R.