Dr Christine Rogers is a Pākehā/Ngāi Tahu filmmaker, writer and textile artist. Her film work encompasses fiction, essay films, art videos, corporate and infotainment and has screened nationally and internationally at multiple film festivals. Her writing has been published in books, journals, newspapers and online. Her textile art has been exhibited in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. Through her creative practice, Dr Rogers explores belonging, adoption, and identity.
Dr Rogers has taught fiction and non-fiction filmmaking practice and screenwriting at RMIT University, The Victorian College of the Arts, JMC Academy and Queen’s University, Belfast. She is a passionate educator who puts belonging at the centre of her teaching.
Professional Memberships
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Book Reviews Editor and Co-chair of Editorial Board, Journal of Media Practice and Education (2023)
- Australian Writer’s Guild (2000 – 2021); Chair of Victorian Branch (2019-2021)
Awards/Fellowships
- Recipient of Vice-Chancellor’s Scholarship, RMIT University, 2017-2020
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Winner, 3 minute thesis, School of Design and Social Context, RMIT University (2018)
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Winner, ‘Best Use of Guerrilla Aesthetic’, Melbourne Underground Film Festival (2015), and ‘Best Cinematography’, Sydney Independent Film Festival (2015) for I am Evangeline, independent feature film. Writer and Director Christine Rogers, Producer Jonathan Roper.
- Winner ‘Best Overall Film’, Canterbury Film Festival (1991) for Violent Hands, short film. Writer and Director Christine Rogers.
Film Selection
Writer and director Introduced (2023), short essay film.
- Screened Society for Visual Anthropology Film and Media Festival, Toronto.
Writer and director This small bird (2023), short essay film.
- Screened Ethnografilm Film Festival, Paris; National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi.
Writer and director Oak Tree, Gum Tree (2022), a video collaboration with Catherine Gough-Brady
- Screened International Visual Sociologists Association (IVSA) online exhibition ‘What is an Image?’.
Writer and director Looking forward, walking down (2018), short essay film.
- Screened Ethnografilm Film Festival, Paris, finalist; ATOM Awards, 2020.
Writer and director John Arnett—Five Properties (2018), short essay film
- Screened Ngāi Tahu Hui-a-Iwi, Tuahiwi Marae, North Canterbury.
Writer and co-director Remain in Light (2015), documentary on the Design Hub research building and architect Sean Godsell, producer Ros Walker, funded by RMIT University.
Writer and director I am Evangeline (2015) independent feature film, producer Jonathan Roper.
- Selected for Melbourne Underground Film Festival (winner Best Use of Guerrilla Aesthetic), Sydney Independent Film Festival (winner Best Cinematography), South Austin Underground Film Festival, Ficsur Festival Internacional de Cine de los Países del Sur del Mundo.
Writer 17 x 25min programs for Deluxe (2010) and 15 x 25min programs for Icons, factual life-style entertainment for cable TV, for World Wide Entertainment (2008-2010).
Writer U2 – A Rock Crusade (2010) 47min DVD for World Wide Entertainment, multiple TV sales worldwide.
Writer and director Anne & Richard, (2006) 14min film produced by Clifford Hayes.
- Selected for Melbourne International Film Festival, New Zealand International Film Festival, Flicker Festival, Australian Festival London, IFCT USA.
Co-writer The Forest (2004), with Jo Kennedy, 50min film, director Jo Kennedy, producer Clare Sawyer, production funded by AFC, ABC & Film Victoria.
- Selected for Sydney Film Festival, Melbourne International Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Bermuda Film Festival, Commonwealth Film Festival, Manchester Film Festival, St Kilda Film Festival, screened Clermont Ferrand Market and Cinema Des Antipodes, Cannes, France. Nominated, Australian Film Critics Circle Awards. Toured as part of the AFC ‘Fifty Minutes from Home’ series. Cinema release Palace Films, The George Cinema. ‘Highly Commended’ Dendy Awards.
Textiles Selection
- 100% Not Sure; Identity and Belonging, exhibition at First Site gallery, RMIT University (2019)
- Elizabeth and Christine Sampler, embroidery, nominated for Victorian Craft Awards, (2019)
Research areas
- Creative practice research
- Filmmaking
- Adoption studies
- Belonging and identity
- Decolonization
- Autoethnography
- Essay films
- The non-human