Laka

synopsis

Laka is a multi-platform project with three components: a feature film, an audio-visual installation and a virtual reality experience. The project is a collaboration between Australian artists S. Shakthidharan and Rosealee Pearson, and their Sri Lankan and Yolngu families in Sydney and Arnhem Land respectively. Collectively the works immerse audiences in Hindu and Yolngu worldviews and histories, showcase rarely explored connections between the two cultural systems, and imagine possible manifestations of Australia's ancient, as well as contemporary, interculturalism.