Te Whakairo is a short film by Elanti Media that documents the journey that James York (Ngāi Tahu / Ngāpuhi) and Poutama Hetaraka (Ngātiwai / Ngāi Tahu) took to carve and install a whakairo at New Zealand’s Scott Base in Antarctica.

Their whakairo gives form to a conversation about the importance of Antarctic science and research to understand and respond to climate change and the common values of mātauranga Māori and science to understand the complexity of the global ecosystem – of which humanity is just one part.

You can read more in the booklet “Te kawe ngā kī i te Tonga“.

The film screened at as part of the seminar series and now publicly available as a part of the seminar recoding.