Summary EPISODE FOUR: Reinventing Distance. After a promising start New Zealand culture takes a wrong turn - the country turns its back on the Tasman world it had belonged to from the very beginning of European settlement and snuggles up to an imaginary Britain. Towns and cities pop up, and settlers start to reinvent their history. The ensuing struggle between town and country would last for nearly seventy years. Pakeha New Zealand seizes on Maori imagery to define its identity and at the same time Maori are persuaded to give up their identity and become brown Pakeha. Sir Apirana Ngata, with the best of intentions, continues to smother Maori art and the Maori Art School in Rotorua sets out to impose a single traditional style on the richness and vigour of Maori Art. Two prophets, Rua Kenana and Wiremu Ratana carry a changing Maori art into the 20th century. Only British teachers are imported for the country's art schools and some of them have a positive influence on ideas about New Zealand art. Artists struggle to make some sense out of the confusion and some of them do - inventing a New Zealandism which the more talented use as a Trojan horse to smuggle in a British modernism. A small group of artists - Colin McCahon, Toss Woollaston and Rita Angus - find their own voice and cast a long shadow over what happened next. The Auckland Art Gallery, under the direction of Peter Tomory, begin to explore a New Zealand art history and define a context for New Zealand art and the idea of distance begins to lose its appeal to a new generation.

• Documentary