NZ On Screen celebrates the New Zealand Music Awards with a collection of our best music videos.
Spanning 34 years, and 34 titles, the collection brings together winners of the Tui for Best Music Video, honouring the directors, artists and songs that have taken out the coveted award.
Featured titles from Kiwi Music Videos: The Award-winners include:
Directed by Andrew Shaw
1983
Winner of the very first Best Music Video Tui, Outlook for Thursday was directed by Andrew Shaw. Featured are a gun-toting Dave Dobbyn, speedo-clad Peter ‘Rooda’ Warren, and a great snapshot of 80s Auckland.
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Directed by Josh Frizzell
Produced by Matt Noonan
1993
Filmed in black and white, this clip scored a double-header in 1994: it was voted best video at both the NZ Music Awards, and the NZ Film and Television Awards. In it, director Josh Frizzell mixes images of Paki singing with stunning portraits of small-town New Zealand.
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Directed by Joe Lonie
2002
2003 saw Joe Lonie receive his fourth Best Music Video Tui, having won three earlier awards with clips for his band Supergroove. Sophie is one of a series of Goodshirt videos Lonie directed, all of them filmed in one continuous take.
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Directed by Joel Kefali
2017
2017’s Best Music Video Award winner, Joel Kefali, is also a fourth-time Tui recipient. Joel has previously won for his work on Lorde’s Royals and The Naked and Famous’ The Sun and Punching in A Dream (with Campbell Hooper, as half of the creative partnership Special Problems). At this year’s Artisan Awards he took out the Tui with this great clip for Auckland band LEISURE.
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You can view the full collection here.
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