Screening Sunday April 27 in Pōneke Wellington is FW Murnau's classic 1922 spooky silent film Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, with a few sensory twists.
Not only will it be accompanied by a live score, composed and played by Peter Dasent, this will also be 'scented cinema'.
Presented with Australian producers Snivure and Scented Storytelling, patrons are to be given a souvenir card with ten scratch-and-sniff whiffs, ranging from the heaven of fresh flower blossoms to the stagnant and stale stench of the Black Death.
Tammy Burnstock leads Scented Storytelling, bringing together olfactory art and stories working with writers, scent experts, and performers to present Smell-O-Vision cinema events, 'stinky story' workshops and even smelly puppet show theatre for kids.
In 2023 she was part of a team developing a tabletop board game Scentscape and previously presented in New Zealand the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in 'Stink-o-vision'.
If that wasn't smelly enough, Burnstock also co-directed and produced the scented documentary In Glorious Smell-O-Vision! which explores the invention of scented cinema technology - a 'smell brain' which created a 'smelltrack' - debuted with 1960 Hollywood film Scent of Mystery starring Elizabeth Taylor.
That followed Burnstock's own 2016 inventive reboot of the film with a team, which she presented at Cinerama Dome in Los Angeles.
Tammy Burnstock joined Culture 101 fresh from a presentation of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
