Amala Groom, ‘The Lodge’ (1 min trailer) 2025
single-channel video, 6K UHD video, colour, sound, 11:11 mins

The Lodge is the third moving image work in Amala Groom’s Raised by Wolves series, following The Proposal (2022), and The Union (2019). Autobiographical in nature, the series explores the relationship between alchemy (spirit) and science (matter), following the belief that life is a marriage of these forces, with the human being as the ultimate construct between them.

Filmed on Ngunnawal Country in Canberra’s Parliamentary Triangle, The Lodge engages with Groom’s history of direct action at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy and ceremonial rites of passage within and without the halls of Parliament House spanning the past 20 years from activist to advocate to artist. Named after the residence of the Prime Minister, the work references David Lynch’s Twin Peaks and its White and Black Lodges, reinterpreting them as the indivisible duality of ‘light’ and ‘dark’—a dynamic embodied by Canberra’s historical and political landscape.
vereign Wiradyuri woman.
Writer/Director/Performer Amala Groom
Producer Michaela Perske
Cinematographer Ryan Andrew Lee
Creative Director Kristine Townsend
Editor Elliott Magen
Composer Ben Rosen
Grade Daniel Pardy
1st AC Luke Patterson
Rope Assistant Kate Harriden
Runner Nyssa Miller

Runner: Cath Webb