#welby ings

[zanephillips]

Jordan Oosterhof in Punch (2022)

[celluloidrainbow]

PUNCH (2022) dir. Welby Ings Jim is a seventeen-year-old boxer in a small town preparing for a fight that will elevate him to an early professional status. All bets are on his climb to success, but his father Stan is a demanding coach and a notorious alcoholic. As Jim begins to rethink why he is fighting, his life tangles with Whetu, a razor-tongued, gay Maori boy who spends his days in an old shack with his dog Moimoi where he cobbles together a fragile glamour and dreams of leaving town to become a musician. (link in title)

[violetsandshrikes]

1980s New Zealand, where being gay means hiding in plain sight and local homophobes, backed by the Far Right churches of Reagan’s America, are hell bent on destroying any liberal fantasies of change. With money and power behind them, they wage open warfare on New Zealanders fighting for their right to be different.

We know the broad political story of how homosexual law reform was won in the 1980s, but we don’t often hear the voices of the amazing men and women who lived it. The gritty activists who were spat at and reviled, who risked jail and losing their families. They fought both local and international hatred, taking to the streets in anger and in celebration. "Cynthia Bagwash" who disrupted meetings in her stylish fox-fur and white gloves, the lusty anthem singers harassing Salvation Army anti-reform petitioners, the heartbroken nurses working in the AIDS wards, and the man tasked with bringing his cousin’s body back to the marae.

Would be grateful if anyone could boost! These guys are trying to get funding for this documentary about the fight for gay rights in 1980s Aotearoa.

The director, Welby Ings (Punch 2022, Sparrow 2016, Boy 2005, long listed for the Oscars ) knows the story intimately. In the early 80s, he started his small town’s three person pressure group, Gay Rights of Taihape ( GROT ). Arrested several times and with his teaching career under threat, he threw himself into the national campaign, protesting, infiltrating and interfering as much as possible with the opposition.

[filmgifs]

PUNCH (2022) dir. Welby Ings

[ramascreen]

Official Trailer And Poster For PUNCH Starring Tim Roth - In Theaters, On Digital and On Demand March 10, 2023

Dark Star Pictures has released these official poster and trailer for PUNCH Starring: Tim Roth, Jordan Oosterhof, Conan Hayes Written and Directed By: Welby Ings Jim is a promising teenage boxer, training under the watch of his demanding and alcoholic father. When Jim develops a relationship with a male classmate, the two are forced to navigate isolation, homophobia, and the brutality of…

[natarlove]

Tim Roth: You could see in the material, the film-maker he would become

August 28, 2022 • 15 min

Tim Roth is an acting legend, BAFTA winner, and an Academy Award nominee. He first came to international attention in Quentin Tarantino's breakout movies Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction 

Since then Tim has been in all sorts of movies and TV shows, most notably The Incredible Hulk, Planet of the Apes and more recently he’s reprised his role as Emil Blonsky in She-Hulk. 

His latest film is in cinemas early next month and it’s a small New Zealand film called Punch, which he made with first-time kiwi director Welby Ings. 

Actor Tim Roth joined the Sunday Session with Francesca Rudkin to discuss his upcoming film, and his career til now. 

[sunmontuewrites]

So the first keynote speaker today was Welby Ings, and I didn't realise it until he pointed it out, but his name sounds a lot like 'well-beings'. He is really well worth listening to, did a TED talk a few years ago. He's a design professor, didn't know how to read or write until he was 15, has been arrested 3 times (twice for being homosexual and once for protesting). I went to the library in my break and got his book Disobedient Teaching to read.

[siangrad703]

Week 11 - Lecture

This week's lecture by Welby Ings was a nice closure for the semester. I always find his lectures interesting because he tends to talk a lot about ancient philosophy. This week he told us the story of Soloman and the baby and when given information we should be critical. because you never know who the puppet master is and what information you're being told purely because someone wants to control your thoughts. I also remember him saying that we have so much power because as visual communicators we can be the puppet masters.

For the other half of the lecture, he told us about the post-graduate options, I'm not looking at going into it but it's still good to know things in case I change my mind in the coming years.

[grad604-macytaylor]

Week 4 Lecture: Staff Case Studies

Creative Communities- Staff Case Studies 

Who are the local and global creatives designers, illustrators, and photographers you want to work with?

Natalie robertson 

“It really is, bottom line, all about those relationships.”

Bede Bennett 

Places to find jobs?

Ezra Baldwin

Not seeing identity in the world: create the space that you want to see

Representation - activism - advocacy 

isaac loyola 

Welby ings https://academics.aut.ac.nz/welby.ings 

ruben marquez https://www.pinterest.com/pin/535083999475691244/ 

Cherise Cheung

https://nz.linkedin.com/in/cherise-cheung

Aakifa 

Publication design

Advocacy - ambitions- attitudes

[grad703-liv]

week 3 - lecture

we had Professor Welby Ings again for this lecture, where he gave a tiny recap of the last lecture and went deeper into the positionally aspect of the exegesis. he said we could write it in whatever tone we wanted to, could note our previous works and the most important thing for us to write as authentically as possible.

[frosinapopovskigrad703]

Notes from Wk3 Lecture

Today we had another lecture with Professor Welby Ings. Today he spoke on 'positioning the researcher'. Overall it was interesting to listen and see how he always went back to the idea of finding your voice and having it relate to your own independent thought. I also found it very interesting how you can take different approaches for the tone of voice. Didn't realise you can make it poetic, formal or informal. The poetic touch interested me the most because I didn't realise you could be able to take this approach. I also found the idea of putting the reader in your shoes; thought that this was a very good touch that I want to ensure I work towards. As well as the idea of using photos if they are important and relate well to what you are saying.

[701janella]

Week 11.1

Presentation: Professor Welby Ings

I really enjoyed the presentation. I thought that the project examples were really interesting and gave me some ideas on how to further develop my own project. The "Ruin" project in particular was fascinating. I really liked how they developed the idea into abstract imagery. I don't think I want to do anything abstract but I liked that the imagery invoked interest and made me want to know more.

In-class work:

I ended up printing out one of the posters so I could see what it looked like and how the typography works together and everything.

I think the white (context) text could be smaller. I might experiment with the sizes and see what works best.

I like how the main typography looks on the page. I think it actually looks pretty static-y which was my biggest goal.

I might explore how I could make the text look more broken? especially the actual "break" word.

Ideation

These are just some of the ideas Juliana and I came up with for my motion graphics and social media collateral.

Motion Graphics:

I could play around with tilting the devices so it's more disruptive but also having them touch so they're connected -> This means I could have the words all connect together at the end?

I could play around with how the words bounce around?

Social Media (Instagram):

Playing around with how I could place the images together. Maybe one row on the page could represent one image. Sort of like this campaign.

I could play around with possible gifs or how the motion graphics could translate on social media.

[grad701seanjacobramosimbang]

Creativity activates with Welby Ings

here is the floor plan that i drew out of that story Welby was telling. i found that there were quite a few people who almost had the same exact layout as mine. it was interesting to see how other people envisioned the layout of the story. some people drew a 3d layout instead of a birds eye view and someone had a round floor plan which i found pretty cool. crazy how everybody has a different interpretation of things and how everybody thinks differently. 

when he told use to think of the worst gift we ever received i wrote and talked about getting a handshake as a gift. this was a challenging one because I couldn't draw the link between a hand shake and design. man that was really tuff on the brain. it was funny hearing about other peoples worst gifts. one being a bag of beans and a lame magician set. 

[grad701-liv]

week 2.1

we had a creativity workshop today! it was very interesting and I enjoyed the story Professor Welby Ings recounted to us about Aujke and the Trow. towards the end of the session, he left us with a confusing concept to capture ‘the melody of a scent of a rose’, or something along those lines. maybe one day, something will come to me. but for now, all I can think about is a strategy he taught us on how to come up with original ideas. come up with all the typical ideas you can think of related to the concept and throw them out!

[matthewhillsocialdesign]

Studio 2.1 – Professor Welby Ings

The creativity workshop by Professor Welby Ings opened my mind to thinking in unconventional ways. 

At one stage he talked about birthday parties and how they all follow the same structure and formalities and I took something from that. People tend to do what they know and this leads to us having reduced levels of creative thought. 

What if there was a birthday party with no cake and nobody sang happy birthday, and people interacted in an unconventional way. That would be an event worth going to and would be memorable to those attendees for decades to come. 

This made me reflect on my creative practice and instead of leaping into a project in the most conventional way, in future, I will remove all of the cliches first.

[dionhenry701]

Guest speaker - Welby Ings - 07/03/23

Today the class had a guest speaker in the session and I enjoyed every moment of it, he prompted me to think about a lot of different topics, like who am I, our minds and how they work individually. After the session I felt wholesome as a person knowing that my thought process is unique and I thought that was beautiful.