The interdisciplinary performing arts and production organisation, PaXifica Performing Arts Laboratory Trust was established in New Zealand and registered as a charitable trust with the Companies Office on 29th August 2006. Its main activity is in creative moving image productions and where possible the Trust also supports through its resources and skills filmmakers and those working within the performing arts.
In 2009 PaXifica Moving Image Production was established as the moving image production component of PaXifica Performing Arts Laboratory Trust. PaXifica produces its own creative projects, and for the sole purpose of supporting the Trust which is a non-profit organisation, it has undertaken commercial work for a diverse range of companies in New Zealand.
We offer a range of services including concept design, scripting and production, through to post-production. We are able to provide high definition digital video and animation for websites, iPad/iPhone, Android, and other digital platforms, including broadcast.
Whether your production is large or small, we deliver creatively designed videos of a high standard, using advanced production and post-production technology.
PaXifica’s post-production services include graphic design, photography, editing and motion graphics.
The Trust aims to develop an enduring structure to provide a platform for artist of moving image and the performing arts that supports the development of their artistic practice and their ability to embrace opportunities both locally and internationally.
Within the terms of our capacity and the Board’s approval, assist in facilitating training and cultural exchange, which elevates the understanding of artistic expression and cultural mutuality between artists and their communities.
To embrace and reciprocate the social, natural, and political environment in which the organisation lives in order to contribute to its health and spirit by enhancing and facilitating creative expression through community projects.
In carrying out the above charitable aims and in all activities in which the Trust is involved:
- To honour the spirit and principles of the Treaty of Waitangi (Te Tiritio o Waitangi);
- To honour the terms of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990;
- To foster respect for the preservation of the eco system.
Filmmakers and Performing Artists who wish to seek our assistance please contact us to discuss your projects and our ability to support you.
Our logo is based on the ancient Polynesian Stick Charts and the constellation of the Southern Cross.
The Stick Charts were an ‘ocean mapping and navigation technology’ used by canoe travellers, known throughout the Marshall Islands, Micronesia and Polynesia. ‘The charts represented major ocean swell patterns and the ways the islands disrupted those patterns’, says Makezine, in their Lost Knowledge section. PaXifica is situated in the Pacific and Pacific Rim and its more experimental activities are creatively navigational.
The other strong influence for our PaXifica symbol, apart from the sails of the sea-faring canoe of the early Polynesian navigators, is another important navigational tool, the celestial formation Southern Cross. And, of course, the stage and its potential for performance.
Type ‘stick chart’ into wikipedia or http://blog.makezine.com/