Emma Bugden and Colin Hodson

272 Willis St & Footscray Ave

16 November - 4 December

Emma Bugden, a Wellington based curator and artist. Colin Hodson, a

Wellington based Filmmaker.

In May 2004 Transfund New Zealand approved funding for Wellington's Inner City Bypass, a controversial proposal ever since it was first mooted in the 1960's. Residents of buildings along the bypass route, owned by Transit New Zealand, began receiving eviction notices shortly afterwards.

During the months leading up to filmmaker Colin Hodson's move from his house, 272 Willis Street, the area surrounding his place turned into a demolition site, as buildings around him began to fall.

272 Willis Street is a videotaped record of the last remnants of what was once a community that used to live and work there. From images of the diggers first thrust through the original workers cottage, to the final push of the last brick wall of the factory next door, to the days following, when 'scavengers' appeared, taking away bricks and copper wire, were recorded

At the same time, a few streets over, in Footscray Ave, Hodson's partner, artist and curator Emma Bugden waited out the time until she too would receive a letter of notification for her house. Hodson and Bugden began to record a documentary of Footscray Ave, in collaboration with Bugden's 10-year-old neighbour Dusty Johnston, in what Bugden describes as "an attempt to capture the street as it was really lived -

realising we were too late to capture Willis Street as it had been, we wanted to make sure we recorded Footscray Ave before it too disappeared."

The resulting two films are shown together as a pair, each showing

fleeting glimpses of a city in a state of flux.