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may or may not be a hopeless romantic 🥀
🎞️ film photographer | director | cinematographer
🎬 @girlsinfilm_aotearoa
📖 @fang__mag

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Behind the scenes and a preview of the shoot for Mairātea Mohi’s feature piece, ‘Te Haeata: A dawning light’ ✨🖼️

Preorders for FANG Spring closes in a week‼️ DM us to get yours now, or pay more after launch 🙄

WORDS Mairātea Mohi (@mairatea)
MODEL Elise Sadlier (@elise_sadlier)
CREATIVE DIRECTION & STYLING Mairātea Mohi and Elise Sadlier
IMAGES Flora Xie (@floraescent)
LOCATION Alberton House

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Among the spring showers and southerlies, in FANG Spring’s cover and centrefold shoot, Flora Xie highlights another hurdle that lovers have to overcome this season: hay fever 🤧💐

FANG Spring is open for preorders for a limited time‼️ That means discounted prices and bundle deals are only around for another two weeks so slide into our DMs quick 💋

STARRING Nomuna Amarbat (@nomuna_mrbt) and Ashe Wainui-Mackle (@ashe.wm)
PHOTOGRAPHY & STYLING Flora Xie (@floraescent)
HAIR STYLING Yasmin Dullabh (@yegg.does.hair) and Aster McCallum (@asteroid_hair)
MAKEUP Viva Wong (@_vivamua_)
ASSISTS Naomii Seah (@naomiiseah), Maddy Crutchley (@maddycrutchley), and Tasman Clark (@tasmanclark)
COSTUMES Sherbet Lemon (@sherbetlemonstudios) and STANG (@stangwrld)
REEL Tasman Clark

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a finalist for @nzwebfest Best Music Video are you kidding me?!!!! thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you

especially to these legends below

video ft @goodspacemusic, cowritten with Jeff & @christiantjandrawinata

Directed and DOP by @floraescent
Produced by @nat.eleonora
Camera operated by @dylan_poihipi_

Styled with @lulu_qiu
With rental support from Thousand Falls Hanfu

Set dressing/general support with @suchashambles

Gaffer @lumos_lx
Edited by @tasmanclark
Coloured by @_benmwilliams_

Distribution @precise

Location:
Thank you to R&S

Made with the support of @nzonairmusic new music pan-asian ❤︎

A K BLOCK Production

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PREORDERS FOR SPRING ARE OPEN 🫦

Ready to see what we’ve cooked up for this transitional season? DM us to find out 💋 Mags are just $20 while preorders are open (and maybe we’ll do some bundle deals too 🤭)

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photos from @floraescent’s incredible roll you haven’t seen yet 🦋🌹

as part of cigarette breakfast mv ~

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cigarette breakfast - is an official selection of the Music Video category for @nzwebfest !!

thank you so much for the love on this video so far ❤︎

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WE SHOT AN INCREDIBLE MUSIC VIDEO!!!! the cigarette was the breakfast but the team was a full meal.

here’s some BTS of our shoot from Nov last year - and here’s to continuing to make art that pushes the boundaries of what you know, and continuing to work with cool people that pushes you to become a better artist

go watch xx

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Excerpts from our limited edition minizine released at this year’s @aucklandzinefest, which took home the judges’ wildcard for the Best of the Fest award at the 2026 Zine Awards last night 🥳

This one was a special one for us, made with our friend @breakfast.express in Alyssum’s honour, and with a dedication from Alyssum’s mum 💌

Only 30 people out in the world have a copy of this minizine (plus a handful of prototypes floating around)! Huge thanks to all of our collaborators who helped bring this to life, and to everyone who has supported FANG along the way ♥️♥️♥️

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the cigarette breakfast music video - shot on Kodak 200T 16mm film - is OUT NOW!!!!!

link in bio to experience ❤︎

the biggest love to this music video prod team. i feel like once you find your crew, you keep working together over and over and over again, and you keep growing alongside each other and your visions start to sink in closer and deeper.

i’m so truly proud of what we created… and can’t wait to do it again 👀

ft @goodspacemusic, cowritten with Jeff & @christiantjandrawinata

Directed and DOP by @floraescent
Produced by @nat.eleonora
Camera operated by @dylan_poihipi_

Styled with @lulu_qiu
With rental support from Thousand Falls Hanfu

Set dressing/general support with @suchashambles

Gaffer @lumos_lx
Edited by @tasmanclark
Coloured by @_benmwilliams_

Distribution @precise

Location:
Thank you to R&S

Made with the support of @nzonairmusic new music pan-asian ❤︎

A K BLOCK Production

#kodak #kodak200T #kodak200film

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Some of my favourite frames from the cigarette breakfast music video - premiering THIS SATURDAY @ 8pm!!

You can either join us at the release party for a group screening before the music starts, or jump online to catch the countdown eeee ❤︎

There are quite a few easter eggs 𓆇𓎥⬯ …

ft @goodspacemusic, cowritten with Jeff & @christiantjandrawinata

Directed and DOP by @floraescent
Produced by @nat.eleonora
Camera operated by @dylan_poihipi_

Styled with @lulu_qiu
With rental support from Thousand Falls Hanfu

Set dressing/general support with @suchashambles

Gaffer @lumos_lx
Edited by @tasmanclark
Coloured by @_benmwilliams_

Distribution @precise

Location:
Thank you to R&S

Made with the support of @nzonairmusic new music pan-asian ❤︎

A K BLOCK Production

#kodak #kodak200T #kodak200film

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More than just songs about food 🤍

@dandaninoodles’s debut EP ‘songs about food’ is a bilingual English and Mandarin exploration of family, identity and growing up between cultures, with food doing the heavy lifting as the medium of storytelling. dān dān traces food as culture, family, whakapapa, and the quiet language of love: the story of ancestry that survived on very little, and a generation that gets to make art in abundance.

Out now on all streaming platforms.

Made with the support of @nzonairmusic & the Asian Artists Fund.

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a second teaser of the cigarette breakfast music video - shot on Kodak 200T 16mm film

premiering 22 August ❤︎

honestly the most gorgeous mv shot on film, I can’t wait for you to see it x

ft @goodspacemusic, cowritten with Jeff & @christiantjandrawinata

Directed and DOP by @floraescent
Produced by @nat.eleonora
Camera operated by @dylan_poihipi_

Styled with @lulu_qiu
With rental support from Thousand Falls Hanfu

Set dressing/general support with @suchashambles

Gaffer @lumos_lx
Edited by @tasmanclark
Coloured by @_benmwilliams_

Distribution @precise

Location:
Thank you to R&S

Made with the support of @nzonairmusic new music pan-asian ❤︎

A K BLOCK Production

#kodak #kodak200T #kodak200film

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