2025 Blacktown Shorts Film Festival
Thursday 30 October, 7.30 pm to 9 pmBlacktown Shorts Film Festival has returned for 2025!
Silver tongues is an experimental moving image work by Cook Island Australian artist Morgan Hogg. It explores the Avaiki (the underworld) and the Momokē, who are water people. They are innocent at heart but follow the dark desires of Miru (the Goddess of the underworld). Momokē lure souls of those who are almost ready to leave the ‘enua (the land) and enter into the next life.
This work weaves together Cook Island Ura (dance) and spiritual storytelling to tell the darker mythology of the Pacific, seeing the lines between the afterlife and our living.
*This is one story of the Momokē, there are a variety, with Ati and the Momokē being the most common.
Premiering on the same night as the 2025 Blacktown Shorts Film Festival
Team:
Direction and Performance: Morgan Hogg
Producer: Verónica Barac-Gomez
Videography and Gaffa: Mark Mailler
Sound design: Anouk
Video synth: Róisín Spencer
Bios
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. Making space within her practice to rely on oral exchange between her familial relations and community, Hogg continues the story of her ancestry through maintaining traditional practices within a contemporary lens.
She has completed a double degree in a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Hons)/ Bachelor of Advanced Studies (Film studies) at Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney. Currently completing a Masters of Fine Arts at the University of Sydney. Hogg has exhibited and performed works at Firstdraft, Performance Space, Beirut Art Centre, SCA Gallery, Casula Powerhouse, PICA, Carriageworks, Blacktown Arts Centre, Bankstown Art Centre, Sculpture by the Sea Bondi and the Art Gallery of NSW.
You can find Morgan on Instagram here
This work was commissioned by Sydney Opera House for the Shortwave Program, enabled by The Skrzynski Foundation and Sydney Opera House New Work Now donors and produced by Blacktown Arts.
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