Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
Shortwave is a short film commissioning program from Sydney Opera House, which invites Australian artists to explore their relationship with the screen. Each Shortwave film centres on the interplay between art, performance and screen, showcasing radical, innovative and experimental approaches to filmmaking.
‘Silver Tongues’ by Morgan Hogg delves into the avaiki (the underworld) of one of the creatures, the Momokē. Momokē's are innocent at heart but follow the instruction of Avaiki (the Goddess of the underworld). Momokē wishes to be part of the life of Cook Islanders, but instead takes the souls of those who are almost ready to leave the 'enua (the land) and enter into the next life.
Morgan Hogg is an artist and creative producer of Cook Island Māori (Ngāti Tāne), Tahitian and English descent, living and working on unceded Wangal and Dharug country. Through the perspective of her Kūki Airani heritage, Hogg utilises installation and performance as visual representations of her own exploration of cultural displacement and identity.
Commissioned in partnership with Blacktown Arts.
Produced by: Blacktown Arts
Direction and Performance: Morgan Hogg
Videography and Gaffa: Mark Mailler
Sound design: Anouk
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Shortwave is a short film commissioning program from Sydney Opera House, which invites Australian artists to explore their relationship with the screen. Each Shortwave film centres on the interplay between art, performance and screen, showcasing radical, innovative and experimental approaches to filmmaking.
‘Silver Tongues’ by Morgan Hogg delves into the avaiki (the underworld) of one of the creatures, the Momokē. Momokē's are innocent at heart but follow the instruction of Avaiki (the Goddess of the underworld). Momokē wishes to be part of the life of Cook Islanders, but instead takes the souls of those who are almost ready to leave the 'enua (the land) and enter into the next life.
Morgan Hogg is an artist and creative producer of Cook Island Māori (Ngāti Tāne), Tahitian and English descent, living and working on unceded Wangal and Dharug country. Through the perspective of her Kūki Airani heritage, Hogg utilises installation and performance as visual representations of her own exploration of cultural displacement and identity.
Commissioned in partnership with Blacktown Arts.
Produced by: Blacktown Arts
Direction and Performance: Morgan Hogg
Videography and Gaffa: Mark Mailler
Sound design: Anouk
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