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restriction breeds creativity’, and that’s what the
48Hours Competition has always been about. 2021 has seen this ring truer than ever, with lockdowns, earthquakes and tsunami warnings keeping filmmakers on their toes during filming, with safety front of, right alongside creative filmmaking and good old Kiwi ingenuity. 2021 saw filming happen over the weekend of 5 -7 March, with a second filming weekend on 12-14 March for Tāmaki Makaurau-based teams due to the Auckland COVID-19 lockdown.
Every year, Vista Foundation 48Hours HQ brews up a hearty challenge for our nation’s filmmaking teams and every year they are awestruck at the creativity and ingenuity of the films produced in only one weekend. To learn more about 2021’s genres and required elements and imagine the challenges they presented, check out the
Hall holding the red brick urn modelled after the Lego coffin behind him. Photos: Ross Hall/Dying Art/dpa
When Ross Hall started to think about his will over 15 years ago, he had an epiphany. Suddenly I was absolutely sure that I didn t want to be cremated or buried in a simple brown box. My life has just been too special, the 64-year-old New Zealander says.
Thus was born the idea for Dying Art.
His company manufactures individual, often colourful coffins that represent the preferences and passions of the person within.
From dolphin lovers to space nerds and amateur divers, Hall and his team can put just about anything on a coffin – which has made saying goodbye easier for thousands of relatives and friends.
restriction breeds creativity’, and that’s
what the
48Hours Competition has always
been about. 2021 has seen this ring truer than ever, with
lockdowns, earthquakes and tsunami warnings keeping
filmmakers on their toes during filming, with safety front
of, right alongside creative filmmaking and good old Kiwi
ingenuity. 2021 saw filming happen over the weekend of 5 -7
March, with a second filming weekend on 12-14 March for
Tāmaki Makaurau-based teams due to the Auckland COVID-19
lockdown.
Every year, Vista Foundation 48Hours HQ
brews up a hearty challenge for our nation s filmmaking
teams and every year they are awestruck at the creativity
First Published: 1:19 PM PDT, May 5, 2021
Ross Hall, the founder of Dying Art, creates caskets that are, well, really different. From Legos to doughnuts, his coffin subjects are designed to encourage laughter and lightheartedness.
If you want to go laughing into that good night, Ross Hall has coffin for you.
He founded Dying Art, a New Zealand company that creates custom caskets designed to bring light into the darkest of days, in 2003. Sitting down to write his will, he pondered the merits of being cremated or buried in a coffin. There was no way I was going to go away in a brown box with chrome handles, Hall told Inside Edition Digital. I decided that I would have a red casket with bright yellow flames on it, he said. Because I think I know where I am heading.