In this interview of Merata Mita by Pascale Lamche there is much discussion of representation, oppression, activism, and feminism. Mita's work operates as a critique of the commodity nature of film and Western culture. "None of the Polynesian races, including Maori people, come from a literary heritage. So it suits me to make pictures on celluloid that were formerly pictures of the mind, memory pictures, pictures of the imagination, that the storyteller uses all the time to make his stories more interesting and exciting...merely a continuation of the oral tradition. That's how I see my work."