TE AO MĀORI | ISSUE TWELVE | NOSTALGIA Written by Ivy Lyden-Hancy (she/her/ia) | @tekaraipiture | Contributing Writer A photo of the beach we would play budget beyblades on At my childhood home, 166, we had a tall drawer full to the brim with photo albums. I would go through them and get lost in the life lived by my whānau. I would see my māmā’s memories, my dad’s too, and my own memories long before I knew what they were. Nostalgia lived in me long before I knew what the wor

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KŌRERO TOI | ISSUE TWELVE | NOSTALGIA Written by Danielle Chen (she/they) | @Dermillion | Contributing Artists My artistic practice explores the second-hand nostalgia I feel for my father’s vibrant juvenile past in Taiwan, and my longing for his youthful experiences there. I researched 20th-century Taiwanese masculine youth and pop culture, combining it with my interpretation of my father’s life during that period. This is how I’ve created a romanticised and partially fiction

NEWS | ISSUE TWELVE | NOSTALGIA Written by AUT Ventures | @aut_ventures There’s something sweetly nostalgic about looking back at an old project or idea once you know how it ends up panning out. The moments that probably felt completely ordinary at the time – another day in the lab, another round of testing, another conversation about what could come next – suddenly become part of an origin story. For AUT Ventures, medtech company RespirAq is one of those stories. What began

EDITORIAL | ISSUE TWELVE | NOSTALGIA Written by Tashi Donnelly (she/her) | @tashi_rd | Editor Dear reader, I’ve got a seriously bad case of nostalgia. As far back as I can remember, I’ve loved looking as far back as I can remember. It’s like an addiction. A compulsion to rehash every experience I’ve ever had and to bore any innocent bystander to death with my remembrances. Every day I wake up and exclaim in pure rapture that the day before has now become a day in the past t

NEWS | ISSUE ELEVEN | MAHIMAHI / SEX Written by Liam Hansen (they/them) | @liamhanse.n “Nobody is entitled to their own seat,” says Ricardo Menéndez March with the confidence that he can steal Mount Albert from White and turn it green just as the party has pulled off before. Unlike White and Lee, both of whom are stuck in the risky thirties of their party lists, Menéndez March is steadfast in the top ten of the Green Party, allowing him to continue navigating their work again

NEWS | ISSUE ELEVEN | MAHIMAHI / SEX Written by Liam Hansen (they/them) | @liamhanse.n The Opportunity Party is a strange little beast. It runs on the lines of radical centrism, having been founded as the Opportunities Party in 2016 by Gareth Morgan and since running in an attempt to distance themselves from how much he hates cats. There were rumblings of a TOP victory last election, with party leader Raf Manji staking everything on winning Ilam in Christchurch before losing

WEB EXCLUSIVE | REVIEW | NZIFF This is part of a series of roundtable discussions and extended dialogues conducted by Ricky Lai (@rickthelai), Trevor Pronoso (@CleverGurl), Madeline Smith (@prime4illusion), and Caeden Tipler (@ctipler) on films that have premiered at NZIFF 2026. The following exchange is between Ricky, Trevor, and Madeline on Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's latest film, All of a Sudden. All of a Sudden (2026) dir. Ryûsuke Hamaguchi France/Japan, 196 mins Trevor: Another

REVIEW | NZIFF | ISSUE TEN | ISOLATION This is part of a series of roundtable discussions and extended dialogues conducted by Ricky Lai (@rickthelai), Trevor Pronoso (@CleverGurl), Madeline Smith (@prime4illusion), and Caeden Tipler (@ctipler) on films that have premiered at NZIFF 2026. The following exchange is between Trevor, Madeline and Caeden on Gregg Araki's latest film, I Want Your Sex. I Want Your Sex (2026) dir. Gregg Araki USA, 90 mins Trevor: Gregg really is a fil

REVIEW | NZIFF | ISSUE TEN | ISOLATION This is part of a series of roundtable discussions and extended dialogues conducted by Ricky Lai (@rickthelai), Trevor Pronoso (@CleverGurl), Madeline Smith (@prime4illusion), and Caeden Tipler (@ctipler) on films that have premiered at NZIFF 2026. The following exchange is between Ricky and Caeden on Cristian Mungiu's latest film, Fjord. Fjord (2026) dir. Cristian Mungiu Norway, 146 mins Ricky: Early on in Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks &