DREAMING BEYOND THE HORIZON
It was 4am when Kiwi film and TV director Anna Marbrook was woken from a deep sleep by the phone ringing in her Prague hotel room. She’d never met the man on the other end of the line, and he sounded a little crazy.
“It was like stepping onto a fast-moving train, when you haven’t quite woken up yet; it took me a while to get my bearings,” laughs Marbrook, co-creator of the performance piece A Waka Odyssey, which celebrates 3000 years of Pacific exploration and was representing New Zealand at the prestigious Prague Quadrennial. “I didn’t really compute who it was till I got off the phone.”
Anyone who’s worked with Dunedin entrepreneur Ian Taylor knows he doesn’t let something as inconsequential as international time zones get in his way. The founder of Animation Research Ltd, which pioneered the use of animated 3D graphics for TV coverage of sports such as the America’s Cup, and multimedia production company Taylormade, he was described as “a game-changer” at the New Zealander of the Year Awards in February, where he was named 2019 Innovator of the Year.
Yet despite being known for his big-picture thinking, Taylor – who has just turned 70 –
