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Filament Eleven 11 invests in Astera

Auckland, Aotearoa (New Zealand) based design studio Filament Eleven 11, led by lighting and visual artists Rachel Marlow and Brad Gledhill, works across multiple genres - theatre, opera, dance, rock‘n’roll, live events, installation, and light art - and embraces a mix of medias and light forms.

The company owns some specialist lighting and control kit, and this year invested in Astera wireless LED products - AX3 LightDrops and NYX Bulbs - which have been busy on several projects. Three AX3 LightDrop kits (24 in total) and thirty NYX Bulbs were purchased from Astera’s New Zealand distributor ULA Group last year.

Marlow and Gledhill were already familiar with the Astera brand and its products, they had used them on a few shows including AX3s and AX1 Pixel Tubes as part of Marlow’s lighting scheme for “A Stab in The Dark” by Carl Bland, staged at the Q Theatre in Auckland, a production that was also livestreamed.

The first show for the NYX bulbs was “Scenes from a Yellow Peril”, a poetry show staged at Auckland’s Waterfront Theatre. In the same production, the AX3s were used to light the band, the cast, and a large costume set piece.

Marlow first incorporated NYX Bulbs into “The Writer” by swapping out the Q Theatre’s backstage “blue” system for the NYXs. Some of them were rigged on small Wahlberg winches which flew in and out from the ceiling.

Both the NYX Bulbs and AX3s were used during the 2022 Elemental AKL Festival in downtown Auckland to illuminate the Town Hall venue’s foyers and public areas. The NYX bulbs have also been used as collapsible, flying standard lamps and in many other scenarios.

Gledhill recently used AX3s on an in-the-round show for soul artist Teeks at the Spark Arena. When not in use on Filament Eleven 11’s own shows, there’s been constant demand for the Astera luminaires as dry hire items.

(Photos: Andi Crown/Filament Eleven 11/Tom Grut)

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