This is a multi-media documentary about the sale of Te Kuri a Paoa (Young Nick's Head). The release of this film coincides with the 10th anniversary of the sale of this iconic headland to John Griffin New York hedge fund owner for $4 million. Entitlement works on many different levels: 1) Digital video, photography and computer graphics imagery of the headland, the ocean, the sun, Maori, Captain Cook, and the Endeavour are all melded together. 2) Iconic American imagery fused together into this iconic New Zealand landscape. Key historical events leading up to and including the sale of Te Kuri a Paoa (Young Nickís Head) to John Griffin, New York hedge fund owner was in August 2002.
3) Quotes and statistics from the period and current. The sound track also works on many levels, the music fuses natural sounds from the headland with ambient music. Sound bites from politicians talking of the sales of state owned assets, past and present. This documentary will be shown for the first time publicly at the Tairawhiti Museum in Gisborne on August 3rd, 2012 as part of a joint exhibition with my mother
Jean E. Loomis who is launching her art exhibition Paradise Lost about the proposed oil drilling and fracking in the Poverty Bay area.