In 2023 Sanctum Studio designed, created and puppeteered the Braxadragon puppet for Planet Lulin, screened on ABC TV in 2024.
Lulin wasn’t expecting to develop alien powers, or intergalactic invaders to crash her school science comp, but hey, Year 6 is full of surprises!
Puppet Design: Lachlan Plain
Puppet Build & Puppeteering: Lachlan Plain, Stephane Hisler & Nick Wilson.
Watch now on ABC iView.
Sanctum Studio created a woman-sized cockroach for the short film, No Longer Human, directed by James Haggarty.
No Longer Human is a magical realist, body horror comedy following Harper Cuthbert, a workaholic statistician. When she comes down with a mysterious illness in the hotel lobby, she is forced to reckon with her own identity, both physically and mentally.
In 2022 Moomba Parade commissioned Sanctum Studio to create a family of 3m tall sock puppets, based on 7 year old Navalie’s Vision.
In 2020 Moomba Festival commissioned Sanctum Theatre to create three giant puppets for the Moomba Parade.
In 2017 Sanctum Theatre, in partnership with Magic Lanterns Studio, created seven giant insects to promote Melbourne Museum’s Bug Lab exhibition – a bombardier beetle, orchid mantis, dragonfly and four bees.
