David Blyth editing his 2002 TV HIT ~ Our Oldest Soldier
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Music for Dungeons
by Jed Town
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NZ$22, including postage
Track sampler
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Jed Town's Music for Dungeons is original, haunting and evocative. Parts of it feature as the soundtrack of Bound for Pleasure. Great ambient chill out relaxation.
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Bound for Pleasure DVD
NZ$ 40 includes NZ postage
NZ Purchasers: can now pay by pago.co.nz. Please contact us with your address by email, we will send simple safe payment instructions.
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David Blyth's fascinating documentary about the New Zealand suburban B&D scene. Why do "normal people" visit B&D dungeons, interviews with Mistresses, Masters and Slaves.
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| Awards Video Featured InDepth Links | | No 1 DOCUMENTARY (2002)
David's evocative documentary Our Oldest Soldier achieved the highest number of viewers of any New Zealand on Air funded program for the last year beating the nearest rival Country Calendar by 50,000 viewers. A remarkable achievement for a one-off-programme. John Keir, the producer announced. The programme was repeated on Easter weekend.
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Bound for Pleasure AWARD
The Golden Gate Festival has selected BOUND FOR PLEASURE for its artistic merit.
"In addition to the awards of the Jury, the Committee of Art
has distinguished your film due to its special artistic value."
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a small life
a film by Michael Heath
March 2004
Michael Heath attends film festival in Japan with A SMALL LIFE
Jan 2003 - Auckland New Zealand
Michael Heath's a small life features on TV 3's News program Nightline. In an extended feature, excerpts of the video and a relaxed interview with Michael about his award winning beautiful film were seen and heard. The festival was held in Karachi, Pakistan and featured entries from all over the world.
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Pandemonium
David Blyth announces a new Digital Film Project in pre-production, Pandemonium.
Watch for more details here. We welcome enquiries of those interested in this project.
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Death Warmed Up
UK video cover
David Blyth's classic horror film Death Warmed Up is coming back to life,
watch for an American DVD release of DEATH WARMED UP is coming soon! You can usually get the VHS from our Amazon links below which are now genuinely hard to find. A hugely successful film with international multilanguage releases, it had many different covers. Here are a selection of some of our favourites.
German video cover
The blood shines on the menacing face of the Red Edition.
What other editions were there?
Japanese video cover
Careful with that axe...dept
Death Warmed Up was a very popular film in Japan, called My-Doku.
Thoughtful operation or was this a combination of Brian Dead and The Thinker?
French film poster.
Legendary film director Alejandro Jodorowsky was on the French festival jury that awarded Death Warmed Up - you can read what he had to say about David Blyth here.
Who is the actor featured on the French/USA cover? email me your answer.
Have you an old cover of Death Warmed Up? If you email your cover of Death Warmed Up we can add it to this little collection.
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New York Screening
NEW YORK:
A midnight "sneak preview" screening of "Bound For Pleasure"
has been announced for Friday August 22nd at
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Pandemonium
Pandemonium
is a new film project written by David Blyth.
This is a new work following in the heels of Angel Mine and Bound for Pleasure. But this time the rubber gloves are off.
David's film tells the story of a Dominatrix with a difference.
Be warned, no dark secret is safe - Pandemonium is coming!
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Heroes of New Zealand Film
New Zealand has become known as Middle Earth as film maker and self confessed "Hobbit" Peter Jackson returned, a world conquering hero. New Zealand is very proud of its world class heroes.
David Blyth is a contemporary of Peter Jackson. Indeed, David's first horror film, Death Warmed Up had fans running and screaming in the aisles about the same time Bad Taste was being made and Gremlins came out. Death Warmed up charmed the international festival circuit, see what Alejandro Jodorowsky said about his encounter with David and his high regard for this scarey film.
David went on to make Hollywood productions including Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and continued to make great New Zealand film, including Kahu and Maia - starring the Maori actor Cliff Curtis.
David Blyth has recently collaborated with maverisque muso Jed Town in a stunning collaboration, Fish Tank Telly.
Check it out. It's a new wave of fish tank videorama set underwater and brilliant music.
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Cult credentials
What makes a director a "cult director". Early films are treasured and sought
after due to critical acclaim, shock value or notoriety. Although each of
David's projects is complete in itself, there remain threads which tie
Angel Mine with Bound for Pleasure and cult favourite
Red Blooded American Girl .
Murder links Death Warmed up and Exposure .
With several offers and projects underway we expect to add to the Cult Credentials gallery.
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New Links
David Blyth is part of the faculty of South Seas Film and TV School. The development of new talent is vital for the film industry and South Seas has trained many talented and budding film makers.
Frances Lynn is an English writer and film columnist. Frances is currently writing a horror comedy screenplay for NZ film director DAVID BLYTH and is writing "Disguise", a humorous novel about a reincarnation conspiracy.
Targ-it.com lists David, quotes this site alongside Tim Burton and Luc Besson.
Film Archive entry about AngelMine.
DigitalWallpaper.net
creates wonderful DVDs with natural themes, brilliant ambient music by Jed Town.
www.NZBlues.com featuring New Zealand blues bands legends Windy City Strugglers and gospel stars in Jubilation.
Auckland Poetry fosters NZ writing and gives writers a place to get their work published on the web.
News-Directory.org / Magazines and E-zines - Magazines and E-zines Web Directory
www.echolist.com The Echolist online directory features a massive wealth of information, news and links about a wide range of topics for your edification.
Find your film at a cheap price with
Kelkoo ... David Blyth.
Death Warmed Up. Horror genetics is the subject for this
hyped-up, over-the-top tale of fast action, gore and revenge. VHS/SUR:
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Kiwi Sauce
is a Dutch guide to wonderful products experienced in New Zealand.
Bound for Pleasure is mentioned in Richard Evan Lee's Edifying Spectacle, a weblog about sexuality.
A student of David Blyth it seems although the name is wrong, the films are all David's.
Martin Rumsby's article about experimental film making in New Zealand examines the role of critics. New Zealand film has "grown in a vacuum of curatorial silence". David Blyth is listed alongside his collaborator Richard von Sturmer, who wrote Circadian Rhythms and parts of Angel Mine.
The Big Idea notes the USA Theatrical release of Bound for Pleasure.
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| Intro Hot News Transfigured Nights Feature Recent News Credits | | | | Available Internationally
Transfigured Nights is now available for international distribution on filmbaby.com
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March 2008
News flash
Wroclaw
David Blyth's first feature film Angel Mine is celebrating its 30 year Annivesary. This was the first film funded by the New Zealand Interim Film Commission.
Angelmine along with the director is going to attend a large retrospective of New Zealand films in Wroclaw Poland in July of this year.
The festival has been curated by Dr Ian Conrich, Head of the New Zealand Media Studies Centre at London University.
David has also been invited to give a Master Class at the Media Studies Centre while in London.
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News Flash
New Years Day 2008 - Montreal Fantasia Festival 2008 announces a David Blyth double bill with the inclusion of documentaries, Bound for Pleasure and Transfigured Nights.
Hard on the heels of Transfigured Nights successful screening at the 2007 Lausanne Underground Film Festival in the French speaking part of Switzerland, French word of mouth has spread the word on David Blyth's films across the globe to French speaking Canada.
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at Lausanne
Warhol Superstars
DAVID: While at the Lausanne Underground Film Festival I had the good
fortune to see some of the early 60's Andy Warhol films, including Vinyl
and a two projector screening of Chelsea Girls. The festival invited
three of the original "Warhol Superstars" , Mary Woronov, Holly Woodlawn
and Bibbe Hansen who before the screenings revealed how things really
were with Warhol in the Factory days, fascinating stuff.
photo 1: Holly Woodlawn
photo 2: Bibbe Hansen Mary Woronov ( back ) Holly Woodlawn
Image credits: Photographer: David Blyth.
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T r a n s f i g u r e d N i g h t s
2007 release
"Transfigured Nights" is a 48-minute experimental documentary that explores the wildly perverse, fetishistic pleasures of web cam mask performance.
Director David Blyth takes us into the cyber-homes of a variety of men who show their extreme-sexually charged online behind-the-mask personas...
From the Rubber-encased, Gas-masked MORE RUBBER PLEASE SIR, to the extreme 7-layered, gigantic boobed, and bound HOG-TIED, to the sensual asphyxiation bags of the doll-masked KUNIKO, to the forbidden and haunting Berkha-attired DEEBA, and the hysterically happy ex-Vietnam Vet goodtime gal MISS PIGGY, who wears Pig masks, and cocktail frocks, and twirls topless around her glamour-filled home.
The film, entirely captured from Internet sources, openly explores the new sexuality of the digital age ... and like forbidden videos its impact will be shocking for the honesty it portrays, and hopefully liberating to the world audience at large...
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2007
The selection committee has announced that David Blyth's latest film Transfigured Nights
has been selected to be part of their international documentary film program.
The festival takes place from October 10th to 14th 2007 in Lausanne,
Switzerland.
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2007 festival releases
T r a n s f i g u r e d N i g h t s
"Transfigured Nights", David Blyth's 48-minute experimental documentary that explores the wildly perverse, fetishistic pleasures of web cam mask performance has been accepted in the
Short Film Corner of the Cannes Film Festival.
See Cannes Short Film Corner.
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Angelmine
Angelmine is David Blyth's second film release and a social commentary that renewed calls for more censorship when it was released in 1978 in New Zealand
Angelmine articles
Wellington 2006 screening
Reviews and director comment
Art New Zealand Article
CONTENT MAY OFFEND
On Wednesday nights October 2006 The Film Archive presented Content May Offend - a series of New Zealand Features notorious for the censorship controversies they caused.
FULL ARTICLE
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Bound for Pleasure DVD now available
"...master's degrees in advanced bottom paddling; ...like Monty Python biddies gone bad. - New York Times
Bound for Pleasure now released on DVD (R18, Adults only, Sexual content may offend) after completing a festival run in New York. The DVD contains the full 73 minute cinematic release. On the edge mondo underground / ordinary lives in the guise of "television" documentary remains pure sexually deviant art. David Blyth's exploration of the weird is a remarkly human treatment of the discipline profession he found in the suburbs of Auckland. The festival film is now available on DVD Bound for Pleasure First Edition - SOLD OUT - more available shortly.... Warning: It may shock some viewers with its honesty.
EMail DVD enquiries here.
Discover a journey into the unknown. Order your DVD here - produced by davidblyth.com - an ILA Films release - exclusively available here - order today special price US$24 includes postage.
Warning: R18, Sexual content may offend.
"Intimate...revealing...extraordinar(ily) candid" -- SBS
"Realer than any reality show" -- Queen Divinia
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NZ Listener
New Zealand's respected arts and entertainment magazine carried a major feature in a recent issue about David Blyth and his New York Times reviewed film Bound for Pleasure.
"Blyth has reinvented himself as a maker of low-budget documentaries that TV eats up."
- Philip Mathews in
NZ Listener
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Webmaster Corner
2007
David Blyth new DVD TRANSFIGURED NIGHTS has been edited and is being released shortly. The short for it is listed near the top of this page.
2006
The release of Jed Town's extraordinary and beautiful Cloudscapes of Aotearoa.
2005
The release of another David Blyth doco - this time it is about the people who keep tropical fish. The keepers of the rather beautiful marine tanks and award winnings tanks included in Jed Town's masterpiece - Fish Tank Telly (Telly is Brit for TV). If you have a look at the new Digital Wallpaper site - you can hear a sample of Jed's music.
We also look forward to Jed's next project, also to be released under the Digital Wallpaper label. He has spent hundreds and hundreds of hours filming some of the most spectacular skyscapes with more of his electronic musical genius. Support independent NZ music - buy Jed Town's FISH TANK TELLY (AQUARAMA) from Digital Wallpaper. Available right now!
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FISH TANK TELLY
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David Blyth's early films include the
horror classic
NEW ZEALAND ... TV 3 DOCUMENTARY - AGE OF AQUARIUMS - screened 