Graduate Profiles

Kent Briggs

Moving Image Pathway

After graduating from the Bachelor of Media Arts (Moving Image) in 2000, Kent Briggs has established himself as a director, editor and writer of short films, and also a musician, designer and painter.

Kent is currently editing the feature length version of the '7 Worlds Collide' international music documentary, featuring members of Radiohead, Wilco, KT Tunstall, Johnny Marr, Neil Finn etc. He is also cutting 12 L&P comedy 'webisodes' for the internet, writing scripts for TV shows, music videos and films for the future, and working on his own music/mystery based video blog entitled "The Magic Show".

A recent career highlight for Kent was directing the 6 part TVNZ series "Rural Drift", screening on TV2 in Feb 2010. "It's based in the far north and was a hilarious experience." Other highlights have include working with Neil Finn and trading editing services for recording time in his studio, watching hours and hours of international musicians writing and recording songs for '7 Worlds Collide', and meeting and working with Wayne Anderson.

Kent's thoughts on the Media Arts degree: "Studying at Wintec was the one of the most creatively free periods of my life. The combination of time, facilities, education and lifestyle were an intoxicating cocktail for someone like me who has a brain full of burning ideas. The fact that I was able to work on my ideas as assignments without compromise was killer. I think the balance between relevant theory and actually getting to make art was the massive benefit of studying at Wintec."

Profile of Kent on The Big Idea »