The film was Uenuku, a Māori language drama and also working on it were many artists from Blerta (Geoff Murphy, Bruno Lawrence and Alun Bollinger).

[1] In the 1970s Thomas formed The Artists' Co-op along with Eva Yuen, Ian Hunter, Terry Handscombe and Ross Boyd to "work outside the traditional areas of painting and object sculpture, in the more ephemeral realms of performance and conceptual art.

[1] The New Zealand Festival of the Arts in 1977 used a 'happening' by Thomas as the opening event called The Party, where guest were invited but the promised food and drinks were behind a wall of plastic.

[8] Thomas was one of the cinematographers that captured footage of the 1981 South Africa rugby tour protests that formed part of the film Patu!

[1][9] In New Zealand 100 rADz were made with many artists and filmmakers involved including Lala Rolls, Greg Page and Nova Paul.