 The film premiered in 2016 at the International Competition at the 62nd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen.In 2016 Hipkins was invited to make a work as part of a commissioned set of moving image responses to the writing of New Zealand artist Julian Dashper.Hipkins' resulting work "New World" melded extracts from an 1849 report encouraging immigration to North-East Texas, title-cards resembling abstract paintings, Google Earth footage and reproductions of plates drawn from the 1876 book "American Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil" as well as solarised reproductions of images from early 1980s copies of "National Geographic" and "Penthouse".