E-video

Vigil

New Zealand Film Commission (Firm), (Distributor). Kanopy (Firm), (Distributor).

Summary:

Vigil is the first ever film from New Zealand to compete in Cannes (1984). Winner of the Best Film award at the Madrid Film Festival it is the first feature film of 30 year-old Vincent Ward. Vigil is a powerful atmospheric drama set in a primeval valley where four characters live and farm in an uneasy coexistence. The story unfolds through the eyes of the central character Toss, an 11 year-old girl caught up in the tragedy of her father's death and the arrival of a stranger, Ethan. Ward spent five years making this mystical testimony to the beauty and immutability of nature's laws and the circle of life and death.

Record details

Physical Description: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (90 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Publisher: [San Francisco, California, USA] : New Zealand Film Commission, 1984.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Title from title frames. In Process Record. Film
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:	Originally produced by New Zealand Film Commission in 1984.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Language Note:	In English