Makaillla Pallyaguru and Alex Lazaridis in Trans
On Screen July 30
Trans: Experiments in Living
UPCOMING ON YOUTUBE JULY 30, 2026.
Trans: Experiments in Living is a feature-length video about becoming someone or something else. A live-action, animation hybrid that asks us be surprised by ourselves.
Collaborating artists: Alex Lazadis (Director-Writer), Parjad Sharifi (Cinematographer), Jay White (Animation-Editor), James Maxwell (Composer), Janice Ma (Costumes), Arty Urdabayev (Sound Recording-Camera Assistant). Actors: Delia Brett, Sandra Ferens, Makailla Pallyaguru, Meaghan Pallyaguru, Sabrina Symington, Brahm Taylor, Raina Von Waldenburg, Allan Zinyk; and Anders Kellam, Ida Roeliani, Saskia Kuxdorf.
Makaillla Pallyaguru, Sabrina Sympington and Brahm Taylor in Trans
in development
In the Forest of Dreams
In the Forest of Dreams explores the mysterious spiritual and biological dimensions of being "in the woods” and our interconnectedness with the natural world. The story is told through movement of the forest (built in sections on moveable platforms), sound, light, and through scenes created by the performers.
We conduct an exploratory 10 day workshop, Aug 16 - 26, with the aim of a full production in 2027.
Alex Lazaridis - director
Delia Brett - deviser
Jennifer Burgman - deviser
Adam Grant-Warren - deviser
Isabelle Kirouac - deviser
Jamie Sweeney - light design
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Artwork by Jay White
The Refrain: getting in sync with the world is an investigation into the ideas that inform the work of Fight With a Stick. Using voice and sound we investigate our interconnections with the world around us and how collaboration with the other-than-human works. Each episode will explore one or more approaches, including philosophies such as assemblage theory, Object Oriented Ontology, post humanism, anthropology beyond the human, neuroscience, traditional cultures, resurgent cultures, new forestry, biology, and more.
Episode 3: Cabin in the Woods is a departure from our previous episodes. In those episodes we went deep into the ideas of certain philosophies and practices of entanglement. This time we put the thinking aside and immerse you in a meditative journey through sound and script. Ease your headphones on and let the "spatial audio" engulf you.
Alex Lazaridis: Research, script and voice.
James Maxwell: Composer.
Jay White: Graphic.
Everything around you: The rest of it.
PODCAST: The Refrain: getting in sync with the world
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