Wind & Sky ProductionsProject Stories
Wind & Sky Launches the Land Bridge Project
It’s been a long time in the making, but we are delighted to announce the launch of our most recent production, The Land Bridge.
Many thousands of years ago, during the last ice age, falling sea levels exposed the shallow Bass Strait seafloor as land.
Mainland Australia became connected to the great southern island of Lutruwita/Tasmania.
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I Circle Around the Studio: Collaboration of Women Audio Artists
In March 2019 Wind & Sky Productions producer Lucinda Horrocks created a soundscape in collaboration with composer/performer George Williams and vocalist Sharon Turley.
Recorded, created and performed by women, ‘I Circle Around the Studio’ explores the multilayered experience of women as artists.
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Event Report: Premiere Screening of ‘The Missing’
On Friday the 29th November 2019 a select audience joined us for the premiere screening of The Missing.
The typical Melbourne traffic chaos was countered by a beautiful spring day and the tranquil surroundings of the Melbourne Botanical Gardens and the Shrine of Remembrance.
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Exile CD/DVD now on sale
27 April 2018
The live recording of ‘Exile: Songs & Tales of Irish Australia’ is now available for purchase as a CD/DVD set.
Download or purchase at ABC Music Online outlets: https://abcmusic.lnk.to/Exile
Ireland’s greatest export has been her people and for centuries, emigration and exile have been harsh, repeating themes of Irish history.
An astounding line-up of artists from Ireland and Australia, including Paul Kelly, Shane Howard, Pauline Scanlon, Leah Flanagan, Declan O’Rourke and more, gather in a moving celebration of Irish impact on Australian life.
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Ocean in a Drop
Twelve months ago in January 2015 Wind & Sky Production’s Jary Nemo worked with his old friend Andrew Garton on a new documentary called ‘Ocean in a Drop” ‘. Jary took on the role of Director of Photography on the film spending three weeks on location in Delhi, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh – Central India
These are some thoughts on the road. see also: the behind the scenes photo gallery
‘The Last Goodbye’ Event Story
The culmination of two years’ work was celebrated in the launch of the film ‘The Last Goodbye’ at the Museum of Australian Democracy at Eureka on Sunday the 8th November.
Shown to a full audience in the intimate hemispherical M.A.D.E theatre, the 18 minute documentary explored the meaning of World War One and remembrance for Ballarat. “It was beautiful,” said one audience member. “Very moving,” said another. “I had a tear in my eye by the end of it and I saw other people did too.”
‘The Last Goodbye’ Photo Gallery
In 1914 Australia went to war. Thousands of young recruits passed through Ballarat on their way to the front, to prepare for battle and to say a last goodbye.
This documentary film explores the meaning of remembrance and looks at the way the Great War changed us, through the eyes of young people of Ballarat today.
The film was launched on Sunday the 8th November at the Museum of Australian Democracy at Eureka.
Click here to read a full report of the event.
Photographs by Aldona Kmiec and Lucinda Horrocks.
Painting Stories – Aunty Marlene Gilson
By Lucinda Horrocks, 16 October 2015.
“I realise the dispossession of Aboriginal people and the legacy of racist colonialism is still present in the bones of my home”
Aunty Marlene Gilson’s paintbrush is tiny. It’s narrow as a twig, a fraction the width of her thumbnail. She holds it poised in one hand while rummaging for paint amongst the crumpled tubes lying randomly on a chair next to her. She talks constantly, nervous because we are there. “Where’s the red?” she says. “You know, I can never find it. “ She dips the brush into the paint tube with a practised gesture. “I’m not supposed to do it this way”, she says, “but it’s easier”. She leans close to the large canvas and traces a line, a thread of colour. Bright pigments. Red first. Then yellow, then white. She is lighting a campfire, the simple colours morphing into flames before my eyes. “I wasn’t going to light the fire but I think it looks better.” She dabs on a bit of white and black with a dirty sponge. “That’s the smoke”, she says. And indeed it is, drifting lazily past some tiny figures around a campfire.
“That’s done.” She says.
Here. In a field of what I thought was cows.
The VVG Story.
by Lucinda Horrocks.
“How do you bring a story about technology and water science alive? That was our creative challenge with the Visualising Victoria’s Groundwater film.”
The mud sticks to our boots as we follow the cattle track, our heels sinking into the sodden earth, obliterating hoof prints. Thank God we remembered to bring boots, I think, as I cuddle the camera closer to my chest, my arms awkwardly clutched around the fragile box of plastic and buttons and glass it is my job to keep safe from the muck and the wet. The sky is a dark pattern of clouds but Jary has judged it won’t rain. He strides ahead up the hill carrying the tripod easily over his shoulder.
The Theatre with the Grand-Sounding Name
The Ballarat National Theatre, Gertrude Johnson, and the Australian National Theatre Movement by Lucinda Horrocks.
The Ballarat National Theatre is a local amateur dramatic society with a surprisingly grand-sounding name. It is one of the longest-running community theatre groups in Australia, for which it deserves celebration. But the company’s name reveals another fact worth celebrating. It has a rare, ongoing connection to a foundational episode in the cultural history of Australia – the Australian National Theatre Movement.
What's New
Wind & Sky Launches the Land Bridge Project
It’s been a long time in the making, but we are delighted to announce the launch of our most recent production, The Land Bridge.
Exploring the deep human history of Bass Strait and its Land Bridge
A new digital exhibition tells us about Bass Strait when it was a vast grassy plain people walked across and lived on.
Lucinda Horrocks wins commendation for ‘Discovering an Archive’
Wind & Sky Productions producer Lucinda Horrocks wins a commendation for her writing.
‘The Missing’ wins Best Short Documentary Award in Zurich
‘The Missing’ has won the ‘Best Short Documentary’ award at the Inspirational Film Festival in Zurich.