VFX & Post Production
LOT23 creates incredibly evocative and bespoke work
Specialising in high-production, high-resolution, large-scale, long-format moving image work for artists and filmmakers working on the international stage.
Delivering work to many biennales, art fairs and permanent cultural displays in museums, visitor centres and global digital platforms.
This work provides a bedrock of knowledge to handle the challenges of producing, delivering and displaying digital work at the very leading edge of technology.
Tied Up!
Official Music Video by Genesis Owusu a collaboration with visual artist Lisa Reihana
ROLES: Technical Director, Director of Photography, VFX Supervisor, VFX & Compositor, Editor
Leaving The Light
Official Music Video by Genesis Owusu a collaboration with visual artist Lisa Reihana
ROLES: Technical Director, Director of Photography, VFX Supervisor, VFX & Compositor, Editor
Groundloop,
Sydney Modern Commission
Lisa Reihana, 2022
“Māori artist Lisa Reihana has created a monumental moving image work that overlooks the central atrium in the new building. Set between Aotearoa and Australia, this dazzling sci-fi tale forges a new story of trans-Tasman connection built upon deep histories of encounter and exchange” Sydney Modern Press Release
ROLES: Director of Photography, VFX Supervisor, VFX & Compositor.
Deucalion & Pyrrha
Natalie Tozer, 2022
Deucalion & Pyrrha is a sci-fi parable that seeks knowledge from the underground. The stratigraphy of this film layers narrative symbology and cinematic methodology, each informing the other in subtle but critical layers.
ROLES: Director of Photography, Post-Production Supervisor, Compositor & Editor, Music Producer (Arrangement).
In Pursuit of Venus,
- Infected / Emissaries,
Lisa Reihana, 2017
Exhibition for the New Zealand pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia 2017 projected to over 20m, with 5 projectors and a resolution of 15360x2160 the installation was a fully immersive multi-channel production. The work was critically acclaimed as one of the highlights of the Biennale.
ROLES: Technical Director, Director of Photography, Post-Production Supervisor, Compositor & Editor
Tai Whetuki Redux,
Bishop Museum Pacific
Hall for the Honolulu Biennale,
Lisa Reihana, 2015
Awarded Best Experimental Film:
Tai Whetuki-House of Death imagineNative Festival Toronto Canada
Tai Whetuki delves into Māori and Pacific cultural practices pertaining to death and mourning. Haunting and evocative images, accompanied by an elemental soundscape take us on a journey through the intensity and spectacle of communal mourning, in a reflection on grief and the transition of the spirit.
ROLES: Technical Director, Director of Photography, Post-Production Supervisor, Compositor & Editor
Ihi,
Aotea Centre,
Lisa Reihana, 2020
Fills two floor-to-ceiling spaces in the Aotea Centre foyer, enthralling viewers with the story of Ranginui and Papatūānuku playing out on 65 square metre digital screens. This makes it one of the largest and most significant works of contemporary Māori art in Aotearoa New Zealand.
ROLES: Technical Director, Director of Photography, Compositor & Editor
Nomads of the Sea
Lisa Reihana, 2019
4-channel 3D UHD video: multi-channel audio - Sharjah Biennial, UAE
Reihana’s immersive 3D installation Nomads of the Sea (2018) weaves historical fact with fiction to explore the social tension between cultural leadership, spiritual custom and egotistical desire in the face of foreign political challenge in 1800’s New Zealand.
ROLES: Technical Director, Director of Photography, Compositor & Editor.
Manea - Footprints of Kupe,
Permanent Installation,
Hokianga, 2020
Iwi led project, directed by Dan Mace. Large scale multichannel video work. A cinema 4D theatre experience, part of a 75min guided journey in and around a newly built Whare Taonga, on a beautiful site overlooking the Hokianga harbour - live action on 5x 4m high screens as a backdrop that interacts with live actors on stage. It’s a beautiful and largely untold story of the beginning of our nation’s human history.
ROLES: Studio Director of Photography, VFX, Compositor.
Perfect Storm,
Morag Brownlie,
Short film, 2022
This uniquely beautiful and moving short film, will resonate with people throughout the world that have been separated from loved ones during these unprecedented times. “Through naturalistic photography, Morag Brownlie transports us to breath-taking landscapes capable of making us feel inexhaustible solitude, astutely conveying dreamlike sensations and the smallness of man in the immensity of the natural world, in shots reminiscent of the Oscar-winning The Power of the Dog (Campion, 2021). A triumph.” American Cinemaphotographer & Movie Maker
ROLES: Studio Director of Photography.
Ship to Shore,
Texas Seaport Museum, USA,
Gibson Group, 2020
The Ship to Shore exhibition creates a series of sequential experiential spaces alternating hands-on and innovative interactive learning with immersive experiences, all based on authentic and documented personal stories of immigrants landing in Galveston in the 1880s.
ROLES: Director of Photography, VFX Supervisor, Greenscreen Post.