Sanctum Studio Short Films

CHRYSALIS and other films

Lachlan Plain / Sanctum Studio

Join multi-disciplinary artist, Lachlan Plain, for a FREE film screening and Q+A at Arts on the Fringe.

These six films were created using various media, including super-8 footage, life-size puppets, stop motion animation and oil paint on glass.

Each film is a meditation on different aspects of our landscape - fire, metamorphosis and our colonial past.

Plain blurs the boundaries between natural and artificial - conflating war with bushfire, seed distribution with human migration, and the growth of a child with the metamorphosis of a butterfly. These films span fifteen years. They were created alongside Plains visual arts practice - being featured in plays, exhibitions and land art installations.

About Lachlan Plain 

Lachlan’s award-winning work as artistic director of Sanctum Studio (sanctumstudio.au) has been described as, ‘forg[ing] a dark and surreal dystopia, packed with visual surprises,’ (The Age). His live performances have been staged at festivals around Australia (White Night, Melbourne International Festival of Puppetry) and his short films have been screened at festivals around the world (Melbourne International Animation Festival, St Kilda Film Festival, Revelation Perth International Film Festival, Imagina Anifest NY, Lebanese Independant Film Festival, Melbourne Underground Film Festival, Nocturna Online Brooklyn Film Festival and A Night of Misfit Films US).

In 2012 he won the Impress Prize for The Lost Journals of Pedro Piscator and other tales. His short stories have appeared in publications such as Island Magazine, Going Down Swinging, and Page Seventeen. He is responsible for various murals around Melbourne, including the 300m2 Life on Planet Daisyworld in Fitzroy (2014).

He lives with his family on a permaculture property on the outskirts of naarm/Melbourne. He creates art on the unceded lands of the Warundjeri. He hopes for a sincere and heartfelt process of makarrata to help heal the scars of this country.

Where can I watch Chrysalis and other films by Sanctum Studios? 

These films will be screening as part of the Arts on the Fringe Program at the Walter Reid Cultural Centre. 

When can I watch Chrysalis and other films by Sanctum Studios?

Chrysalis and other films will be showing on Friday 25 July at 7pm - 8pm.