Now in release
Marrga
A Yindjibarndi creation story, told in immersive virtual reality.
A Yindjibarndi creation story, told in immersive virtual reality.
We make films, immersive experiences, and location-based installations, with a particular focus on First Nations cultural work and ambitious cinematic projects.
Our films have premiered at Cannes, Tribeca and the Marché du Film. Our installations welcome more than 500,000 visitors a year at Melbourne's Eureka Skydeck. Our newest immersive work, Marrga, is the only Yindjibarndi creation story ever told in VR.
We work with brands, museums, tourism operators, broadcasters, and education clients on commissioned immersive projects. From strategy and concept through to production, delivery, and ongoing support.
Pure wonder. A layered, visceral shock of hyper-awareness in a visual and aural landscape that is at once familiar and remote.
Dominic Allen is an Australian filmmaker and creative director with a fine arts background and more than fifteen years making work for cultural change. His practice spans narrative features, documentary, television, commercials, and immersive media, grounded in cinematic craft and long First Nations partnerships.
His short film Two Men won the MIFF Emerging Australian Filmmaker Award, and as a producer he brought the Rwandan feature Grey Matter to its Tribeca premiere. In immersive media, Carriberrie premiered at Cannes NEXT and became the largest VR documentary ever made in Australia. He has built large-scale work for The LUME Melbourne, the Voyager Theatre at Eureka Skydeck, and live screen design for Spinifex Gum at the Sydney Opera House.
Reddogs VR is his immersive studio. He directs and produces, and assembles specialist teams around each project, from First Nations cultural advisors to VR engineers and composers, building exactly the crew the work demands.
Reddogs VR works only with the free, prior, and informed consent of the communities it films, and treats Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property as belonging to those communities. Cultural authority sits with the people whose stories these are, at every stage.
From Cannes to Tribeca, from major design awards to industry recognition. The work has been seen and celebrated across film, immersive, design, and live performance.
From international jury citations to five-star reviews, from trade press to broadsheets. Selected coverage of the work.
"A highlight of the entire program. The film's use of full body puppetry to represent the Marrga creation beings was innovative and exciting to witness."
"A vital face-to-face experience of threatened Indigenous culture. Geographical and language divides are no longer an excuse for ignorance."
"Ground-breaking. Carriberrie brings together art, technology and Indigenous performance in inspired new ways."
"Optus is bringing the best in VR technology to the Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix, with the OPTU5G VR Track Tour."
"Carriberrie brings together art, technology and Indigenous performance in inspired new ways. The most advanced 360-degree VR documentary ever produced in Australia."
"An affecting journey rich in ancient cultural significance, every bit as soaring as the viewing experience itself. A remarkable work."
