Groundloop
Sydney Modern Commission
Lisa Reihana, 2023
“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
LOT23 ROLES: Director of Photography, VFX Supervisor, VFX & Compositor
Erotic Geologies
Nat Tozer, 2022
Erotic Geologies is a sci-fi parable featuring characters inspired by Māori mythologies surrounding the figures of Ranginui and Papatūānuku’s children, and the Greek figures Deucalion and Pyrrha. Layering mythologies near and far and bringing together the art forms of dance, animation, film-making and sculpture, this work seeks to acknowledge the connective primordial ancestor of geology.
LOT23 ROLES: Director, Producer, Director of Photography, Post-Production Supervisor, Compositor & Editor, Writer, Researcher, Production Designer, Music Composer and Performer, 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
LOT23 ROLES: Technical Director, Director of Photography, Post-Production Supervisor, Compositor & Editor
Tied Up!
Official Music Video by Genesis Owusu a collaboration with visual artist Lisa Reihana
LOT23 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
LOT23 ROLES: Technical Director, Director of Photography, VFX Supervisor, VFX & 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
LOT23 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
LOT23 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
LOT23 ROLES: Technical Director, Director of Photography, Compositor & Editor
Little Potatoe
Chen Chen, 2024
An incredibly moving short film about the life of Shou Ai Xia, who suffers from dementia. She worked for the Chinese Communist Party for over forty years. The documentary captures two intertwined worlds. One is a fading ordinary world. In this space, she forgets people, places, and the way to go home. In the second she demonstrates her gratitude and ideological commitment to her country. The documentary considers both the revolutionary passion of her youth and the drawing of life into a quiet, gradual close. This poetic portrait considers the ways we might move beyond the representation of ‘the tragic discourse of dementia’ as a trope in conventional filmmaking.
LOT23 ROLES: Soundmix and Colourist
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
LOT23 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
LOT23 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
LOT23 ROLES: Director of Photography, VFX Supervisor, Greenscreen Post