Persuading the Baby to Float

Since 2009 poet Bill Manhire, composer-pianist Norman Meehan and vocalist Hannah Griffin have written and recorded three albums. This documentary explores their collaborative process: the ways the songs were composed, and what lies behind the words and music.

"Interview and conversation footage reflecting on the process of collaboration are cut in with rehearsals and performances. Towards the end, powerful full performances emerge, and only at the very end does the audience appear and applause breaks out like the release of a pent breath." (New Zealand International Film Festival 2012)

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