Rubbings From A Live Man - Dunedin

A screening of the film Rubbings From a Live Man by director Florian Habicht (Woodenhead, Kaikohe Demolition)

Habicht crafts together a flamboyant, tour-de-force exploration of the life and times of the incomparable Warwick Broadhead.

Broadhead’s career as a performing artist and director has spanned four decades – from Full Moon Follies in 1972 through to 1999’s A Delicate Quest and on to The Resting Show; a grand community project planned for 2009. Until now he’s never allowed his work to be recorded.

Habicht takes a unique approach to documentary filmmaking as Broadhead re-enacts the highest and lowest points of his life through various alter-egos and vignettes that lavish his story upon the screen.

Together filmmaker and subject revisit Broadhead’s childhood in 50’s Kiwi suburbia, his wild ecstatic 60’s in San Francisco and a heap of trauma, exaltation and grief ever since.