Scarab Studio is an Australian film and video production company based in Melbourne, Australia. Scarab Studio started with the implementation and execution of a month long public art intervention in Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, known as the Scarab Window. They hung a data projector in a plastic cat box from the eave of an upstairs window and had it spit video art, poetry, photography, illustration and painting onto a giant wall, creating a crack in the suburbs commercial urban fabric.
Scarab Studio is now a maker of broadcast, web documentaries and short films. They work in Richmond, Victoria with lots of indoor plants. In addition to various online shorts about political life in Australia, including A Postcard from the Machine and a short film about a farmers response to a group of refugees arriving on his door called Ripples and shown on the three-minute daily vlog Rocketboom their broadcast projects include a film about The Cat Empire’s "Two Shoes" Album recording in Cuba and a film titled "One cup" about Coffee in East Timor and Fair Trade. .
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