David Farrier
Journalist | Director
Investigations
‘This thing is weird’: Get ready for New Zealand’s Gay Oscars
‘Hello, my name is Ally’ – how children are being exploited by YouTube predators
‘I have to delete my channel because of perverts’: the YouTube hypnotists targeting children
It’s time YouTube and Google stopped profiting from porn with kids in it
A Mysterious Film Festival Part I: Waaaait, is this the Auckland film festival I think it is?
A Mysterious Film Festival Part II: Mysteries of the ‘Auckland International Film Festival’: the sequel
A Mysterious Film Festival Part III: David Farrier goes to the Auckland International Film Festival and, guess what, it is total balls
Bashford Antiques Part I: The incredibly weird tale behind the Bashford Antiques clamping story
Bashford Antiques Part II: A mysterious Organ
Bashford Antiques Part III: $760 for a half hour’s parking
Bashford Antiques Part IV: The clamps fall silent: a eulogy for Bashford Antiques
Bashford Antiques Part V: Revenge of the Prince
Zach Part I: The mystery of Zach, New Zealand’s all-too-miraculous medical AI
Zach Part II: The mystery of Zach the miracle AI, continued: it all just gets Terribler
It never stops: David Farrier descends back down the Tickled rabbit hole
The Tickled Saga
Part I: Tickled – The Feature Documentary – HBO Official Site | Hulu | Netflix | Trailer
Part II: The Tickle King – HBO Official Site | YouTube
Part III: Life after the Tickle King’s death
Quirk
The strange story of how a NZ musician was led into the world of financial dominatrixes
Peasville: the bizarre story of one man’s obsession with anthropomorphic peas
David Farrier talks with his old friend who had sex with a dolphin
David Farrier goes to the David Duchovny show, alone
Welcome to the violent, viral world of Cold Steel Swords
Breaking: New Zealand mobile news alerts are intensely weird
People
Two dogs, one ukulele, and the extraordinary man who played it
Billy Howerdel and Maynard James Keenan on resurrecting A Perfect Circle
Who is Fazerdaze? A year with NZ’s next indie darling
Fazerdaze, from Morningside to the world
Kumail Nanjiani on delving deep into The X-Files Files
‘Did you do this just to annoy me?’ – How Rhys Darby hijacked David Farrier’s X-Files dreams
David Farrier remembers Chris Cornell
‘It felt like he was making TV specifically for me’: Jeremy Wells
Street Week – Online Series
Ep I: ‘The Origins of Life’ | Ep II: ‘The Culture of Outrage’ | Ep III: ‘The Objectification of Men’ | Ep IV: ‘The Internet’ | Ep V: ‘Women’ | Ep VI: ‘Cyclists’ | Ep VII: ‘Conspiracy Theories’ | Ep VIII: ‘Outtakes’
Short Poppies – TV Series
Season I: Amazon | TVNZ on demand