We create films to heal the land, share culture, and foster unity
Our team produces documentaries, commercials, projections, and online media
Featured
Grasslands
This is a proof of concept short film for our upcoming feature documentary, Grasslands, which is currently in pre-production. This is the story of Australia's vibrant and resilient native grasslands, and the future of food, farming, culture and climate.
What is the story of Australia’s land? What is the native grain of Australia? Why are native grasslands important? Presented by First Nations people on Country, Grasslands tells the stories that kept us close to the land, that told us about a spiritual and physical negotiation between the wild world and the domesticated grasses that fed and maintained us. Structured as a visual journey across Australia in the style of a detective story, the film blends traditional documentary with conceptual animation sequences and high-end visual effects to create a vision board of how native grasslands could reimagine Australia for future generations. The story highlights how Australia's native grasslands hold the key to the future of Indigenous land management, agriculture, food production, bushfire prevention, water security, biodiversity and healthy Country.
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The Dreaming Project
Time. Place. Space.
Drawing inspiration from ceremony and cultural connection, The Dreaming Project celebrates multiple elements of Aboriginal dreamtime. A rich movement of storytelling led by First Nations creatives, The Dreaming Project brings together circus performance, projection art, lighting, dance and traditional practices. Each show commences at sunset. As darkness descends, we begin with fire and gradually introduce new elements.
Through sound, light and performance – every detail is carefully selected, endeavouring to honour ancestry and represent the beginning of Country. By illuminating and activating different spaces, Dylan Singh’s vision and creativity will breathe life into the story with a sequence of performances informed by ancestry and connection to Country. As you go through a cycle of interconnected and compounding stories, The Dreaming Project is a promenade performance that will transport you to otherworldly places for an unforgettable and enriching experience.
Djandak Dja Kunditja Project (Country Healing its Home)
Kangaroo Grass, as a crop and to heal Country
The Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation trading as DJAARA is successfully leading the agricultural project, Djandak Dja Kunditja (Country Healing its Home) using the highly regarded Kangaroo Grass (Themeda triandra), grown as a modern perennial broadacre cropping system.
Sustainable Building Tours
Join the architect of Cremorne Studios, for a guided tour of a highly-sustainable energy-efficient commercial development in the heart of Cremorne.
From the outset the building aimed to be a precedent for other commercial developments, setting a benchmark in sustainable design. The designers applied PASSIV HAUS (passive solar design) principles to create a comfortable building that requires minimal energy for heating and cooling.
The well-being of occupants has been prioritised through focusing on indoor environment quality. Additionally, materials are used in their pure form for easy reuse at the end of their life span.
Or take a virtual tour of Bargoonga Nganjin, North Fitzroy Library and Community Hub. This is a 6-star Green Star building certified by the Green Building Council of Australia.
Light Up Nature Into Art - LUNA
The Light-Up Nature into Art (LUNA) project provides an opportunity to develop a new and exciting night-time tourism experience within the Yarra Valley and Dandenong Ranges (YV&DR) Tourism region. This new series of events will assist in the dispersal of daytrip visitors to off-peak and overnight visitation, generate additional length of stay and higher visitor expenditure, and upgrade and activate important community assets.
Banyule Open Studios
Did you know there are at least 25 artist studios opening up to the public across Banyule? It's Banyule's inaugural Open Studios Event. Get along, discover something special, and tap into the creative pulse of Banyule. Full details at banyuleopenstudios.com.au
Volunteering in Yarra
Volunteering is the heartbeat of our community. This short promotional video was created for Yarra City Council to introduce the public to a few local volunteers and promote volunteering in Yarra. The video campaign also included a series of short portraits exploring the inspiring stories of the individual volunteers.
Climate Action in Yarra
This is a promotional video campaign to highlight people in Yarra - from community groups and organisations, social enterprises, businesses, schools and the creative community - taking action in various ways to respond to the climate crisis. The videos bring ‘climate action’ to life in Yarra enabling people to see and hear how people are taking action; through climate related art, students pedal-powered cinema event, restoring land along Yarra’s waterways, cooking and sourcing plant-based food, and why and how to use Greenpower. This video campaign was published through the new Yarra City Council Take Climate Action online resource here.
Float...Reconnect, Renew, Regenerate
The story of native grasslands, art, and imagining greater linked areas of habitat.
We are producing a feature documentary on the role of native Grasslands in addressing the climate crisis through regenerative agriculture, carbon sequestration, Indigenous land management, and habitat conservation.. www.grasslandsdocumentary.net
Online media
Virtual Walking Tour - Teaser
The Covid-19 pandemic means that online media has become central to how we communicate. We create online media for the education, arts, and private sectors. Here is a recent example.
This is a virtual walking tour by professor Chris Parkinson created for students of the Melbourne University School of Art. This online walking tour was created in response to the coronavirus physical distancing restrictions which meant that the planned walking tour could not go ahead as planned. This is a selection of excerpts from a lecture with a duration of 90 minutes.
Recent Work
Darebins Climate Emergency Cinema
In 2016 Darebin Council declared the worlds first climate emergency. This short documentary film tells the story behind this radical declaration, and the urgent climate action necessary to mitigate the effects of the climate crisis. This film was screened at the ‘2020 Climate Summit’ at Melbourne Town Hall and at the ‘Climate Emergency Cinema’ at MPavillon in Melbourne.
Of Deities & Demons - Trailer
The Australian Art Orchestra commissioned Lightworks Studios to create a trailer for the 2019 Meeting Points Series. This is a deep dive into an ecstatic celebration of music and ritualistic dance from Sri Lanka with Baliphonics.
Sunbury Cultural Commissions 2019
The arts and culture team at Hume City Council commissioned this short documentary. 10 local artists worked throughout 2019 to develop works for the inaugural exhibition of the Hume Global Learning Centre - Sunbury. The works that were developed were inspired by research and access to the George Evans heritage collection.
Sunshine Silos Projection Festival 2019
The Sunshine Silos Projection Festival is a free one day event celebrating
the arts, Sunshine's rich industrial history and cultural diversity. Brought to the public by the Victorian State Government through the Pick My Project initiative and delivered by residents in partnership with Brimbank City Council. Featured in the Due West Arts Festival with projection design by Little Projector Company.
Previous Work
Ride 2 School
A short commercial produced for the Bicycle Network advocating for young people to ride to school as part of the Ride2School 2018 initiative.
Pitch It 2018
Produced for The Melbourne Innovation Centre and The City of Darebin. Darebin Pitch IT gives local students, graduates, entrepreneurs, businesses, not-for-profits and social enterprises the opportunity to turn innovative start-up ideas into reality.
Moreart Festival 2017
A Short promotional film produced for Moreland council documenting the various artists, their work and what it means to them and their community.
Darebin's Natural Heritage
The City of Darebin commissioned Light Works to create a short documentary exploring the unique natural heritage of Melbourne's inner Northern suburbs. Presented by Wurendjeri elder Bill Nicholson, the film maps six key messages to six outstanding natural heritage sites. The project was delivered as a twelve minute film and five individual stand alone films.
Film
We Are Poets
Multi award-winning feature documentary, We Are Poets, presents a moving and poignant story of youth, art and freedom of expression. The film intimately follows six remarkable teenage poets from youth literary group, Leeds Young Authors, as they are chosen to represent the UK at the world's most prestigious Poetry Slam.
"Unforgettable...a perfect, honest combination of art and real-life. You have to see this" The Guardian
Documentary
The Blockumentary
The Blockumentary documents a changing community from the viewpoint of locals, giving light to the stories and the characters that make up the unique suburb in the heart of Melbourne's West.
Work
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