Movies: Stuart McKenzie

Laura Chant, 16, lives with her mother and four-year-old brother Jacko in a poor new suburb on the edge of a partially demolished Christchurch, New Zealand. Laura is drawn into a supernatural battle with an ancient spirit who attacks Jacko and slowly...

A young couple stumble into a disused photographer's studio and find themselves snapped up by the past....

A 13 year old girl is raped and murdered in a small country town. Ten years later, the murderer is up for parole and the victim's father has vowed personal vengence if the killer is released. Sometime journalist, Lisa, is haunted by the crime and i...

A young woman's visit to the dentist is thick with signs, meanings and metaphors....

Isabel recalls a trio of relationships: one with a man in the middle of discovering he is gay, one with a man who doesn't like the smell of Isabel's pet dog, and the one with her friend Ruth....

A retired couple spend their time digging into the earth beneath their house in search of treasures, until a tremor shakes things up....

A portrait of a family, centred on 95-year old New Zealand actress, Dame Kate Harcourt and her life living with her daughter, acting coach Miranda Harcourt....

Vincent, a young Chinese-Kiwi, is rescued from a group of racist punks in a spacies parlour by a mysterious Asian, then drawn into a seedy Triad underworld....

Actor Miranda Harcourt directs an ode to her broadcaster father Peter in this short documentary. The film emerges from vocal chords (via an endoscope) and uses the tools of her father’s trade as a starting point for a free-ranging meditation on repre...