Films by Strand

Rhythms

Narrative and documentary films centered around music and its forms.

The Best Summer

Tamra Davis

Rediscovered and resurrected into a Sundance-premiering doc by Tamra Davis, this is a raw 90s capsule of life on tour with The Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth, Foo Fighters, Beck, Pavement, Rancid, The Amps and Bikini Kill.

Everybody Digs Bill Evans

Grant Gee

Grant Gee was awarded Best Director at the Berlinale for this intense, fragmentary and inventive portrait of Bill Evans, in an interval of the American jazz great’s career when he grappled with grief and opioid addiction.

Low Expectations

Eivind Landsvik

When a musician's career implodes, she retreats home, takes a job at a high school and quietly pieces herself back together. A sweetly low-key Cannes gem about mental healing, second chances and the unexpected joy of starting over.

Nambassa Festival

Philip Howe

Sixty thousand hippies on a Waihī farm – Aotearoa's own Woodstock, restored and now on the big screen.

Whistle

Christopher Nelius

The competitive world of musical whistling takes centre stage in this humorous documentary that showcases the weird and wonderful lives that have devoted themselves to the art.