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Sayraphim Lothian

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Author, craftivist, activist, artist, researcher.

Plant based, joy filled chaos.

Games, Theatre & Film

2020-2022

AFK

During the pandemic, I stopped working on projects for a while.


2020 - 2022

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2018

Lil Briggs

A custom plush toy based on the Indigenous Australian rapper, Briggs, for Polyglot Theatre

2018


Click here to watch a stop motion film about the creation of Lil Briggs

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2017

Run The Cloud (Pop Up Playground)

A participatory game encouraging people to get outside and discover stories in the world.


2017

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2016

Small Time Criminals (Pop Up Playground)

An 'escape room' style game where players rob a bank at night


2016

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2014

Little Monster’s Big Day Out (Pop Up Playground)

Little Monster’s Big Day Out (Pop Up Playground)

Little Monster’s Big Day Out (Pop Up Playground)

A game involving taking little monsters on tiny adventures. Designed with Grant Howitt


2014 - 2019

Paper Orchestra (Pop Up Playground)

Little Monster’s Big Day Out (Pop Up Playground)

Little Monster’s Big Day Out (Pop Up Playground)

A Constructive Play workshop with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

2014

Now Life In This House (Pop Up Playground)

Little Monster’s Big Day Out (Pop Up Playground)

Now Life In This House (Pop Up Playground)

A participatory game, a retelling of Chekov’s The Cherry Orchard.


2014

1000 Cities (Pop Up Playground)

Now Life In This House (Pop Up Playground)

A city-wide, app assisted game designed for city bikes.

2014

#TrueRomansAll (Pop Up Playground)

A city-wide game, a retelling of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. A co-production between Bell Shakespeare’s Minds Eye and Pop Up Playground.


2014

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2013

The Ride (Pop Up Playground)

The Whispering Society (Pop Up Playground)

The Ride (Pop Up Playground)

An epic battle game inspired by Richard Wagner’s Die Walküre.


2013

Hummingbirdman Rally

The Whispering Society (Pop Up Playground)

The Ride (Pop Up Playground)

A drop in, constructive play project.

2013

The Whispering Society (Pop Up Playground)

The Whispering Society (Pop Up Playground)

The Whispering Society (Pop Up Playground)

A immersive story telling game played on the streets of Melbourne as part of the first White Night.


2013

Feed Your Family (Pop Up Playground)

A 12 player game utilising spectacle, puppetry and theft.


2013 – 2019

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2012

Take a Moment, Leave a Moment

Take a Moment, Leave a Moment

Take a Moment, Leave a Moment

A playful participatory work created as a moment of connection between strangers.


2012

Midnight in the City

Take a Moment, Leave a Moment

Take a Moment, Leave a Moment

A drop in game plastering a cardboard city with paper graffiti


2012

New Games: Play in the UK

Take a Moment, Leave a Moment

New Games: Play in the UK

A documentary about social and pervasive gaming filmed in the UK by Sayraphim Lothian and Robert Reid from Pop Up Playground.

2012

One Minute Manifesto

The Cabinet of Dr Madazpantz

A spoken word performance at the Battersea Arts Centre in London.

2012

The Cabinet of Dr Madazpantz

The Cabinet of Dr Madazpantz

A drop in, constructive play project.

2012 – 2019

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2011

Monsters Inc puppet commission

Monsters Inc puppet commission

Monsters Inc puppet commission

Doolagah


Hand and rod puppet built for the Pixar exhibition at ACMI, Melbourne.


The Doolagah is a Dreamtime legend, a Wildman of the Australian Bush. He protects the environment, looking after the land and the sea (reference: Powerhouse Museum, Sydney)

Monsters Inc puppet commission

Monsters Inc puppet commission

Monsters Inc puppet commission

Bunyip


Hand and rod puppet built for the Pixar exhibition at ACMI, Melbourne.


Bunyips are said to lurk in swamps, billabongs, creeks, riverbeds and waterholes. At night their blood-curdling cries can be heard as they devour any animal that ventures near their abodes. (reference: Wikipedia: Bunyip)

Monsters Inc puppet commission

Monsters Inc puppet commission

Monsters Inc puppet commission

Sully from Monsters Inc.


Soft toy converted to hand and rod puppet for the Pixar exhibition at ACMI, Melbourne.

Monsters Inc puppet commission

Monsters Inc puppet commission

Mike from Monsters Inc.
Soft toy converted to hand and rod puppet for the Pixar exhibition at ACMI, Melbourne.

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2009

Everything Will Be Ok

This is a scene from Terrible Comfort's "Everything Will Be Ok", first performed at 45 Downstairs for Melbourne Fringe, 2009.


In this scene, Debbie has her monologue with Abi and Ayn Rand listening.

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2006

Where The Wild Things Are

Sayraphim was a puppet refurb tech on the film Where The Wild Things Are, which came out in 2009.

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Please note, this is not a comprehensive list of theatre shows, games and films that Sayraphim has worked on/designed/participated in.


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