E A G L E . E Y E

25 min | Short Film | 2025

A dream-like journey over Victoria's salt lakes, merging stunning imagery, ambient music and Aboriginal storytelling.

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"It was so relaxing and enjoyable

I watched it again."

- Joel Pearlman, Village Roadshow

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Synopsis

Eagle Eye is a dream-like journey over Victoria's salt lakes, filmed on Wamba Wamba country. Merging stunning imagery, ambient music, and Aboriginal storytelling, it transforms the lakes’ shifting hues into a meditation on colour, rhythm, and culture. Think Baraka for Australian salt lakes.

Eagle Eye captures the natural beauty of salt lakes in Victoria, on Wamba Wamba country.

Masterpiece of a short film. 40,000 years of storytelling captured in one cinematic experience

Eugene NRG, Producer/Director, Space Between the Gaps

Eamon's film is a beautiful meditation, a stunning journey through Australia's ancient landscapes that leaves you feeling both inspired and deeply connected.

David Strong, Former Producer, St Kilda Film Festival

Meet the team

Eamon Wyss

Producer, Director, Cinematographer

Eamon Wyss is a Melbourne-based film director and cinematographer with a passion for capturing Victoria’s salt lakes through drone photography. With experience as an assistant director and associate producer in short film, Eagle Eye marks his directorial debut. This short film is a proof of concept for a future feature-length project using the same visual and storytelling techniques.

Uncle Ron Murray

Writer, Cast (Voice-Over)

Uncle Ron Murray is a senior cultural custodian of the Wamba Wamba people, based in Castlemaine. He has performed around the world as a didgeridoo soloist, and is passionate about keeping Aboriginal stories, art and culture alive. Ron also lectures on Indigenous issues concerning employment, history, the environment, justice, cultural heritage, arts practice, and the positive contributions of Indigenous people to Australian society.

Benjamin Last

Music Composer

Benjamin Last (aka Ben Temple Step) is a music producer and stage performer, pioneering explorations in tribal-ethno-electronic music. Ben freelances as a producer, DJ and sound healer. As an artist, he explores 'sound' as a sacred, vibrational, alchemical tool, evoking a state of mind that invites audiences to embrace their creative expression.

Andrea Buck

Executive / Mentor Producer

Andrea Buck is an award-winning and ACCTA nominated film producer and writer, working in Hollywood, Australia and Africa. Andrea has sat on two screen industry boards, judged film festivals, attended annual conferences and markets such as AFM, Cannes, AIDC. She also founded Successful Creative as a personal and professional coach for people in the creative industries

Dion Brownfield

Associate Producer

Dion Brownfield is a producer and director for Indigenous Hip Hop Projects (IHHP), using music and art to promote community development in Indigenous communities. He was former manager of the artist Baker Boy (Danzal Baker) at Grand Trine Management, helping to launch his career, and co-wrote some of Baker Boy's early successful songs, such as "Mr Ladi Dadi" and "Marryuna".

Sarah James

Script Editor

Sarah James is a fiddler, vocalist and educator who performs as part of the Celtic-Indigenous folk music duo, Kinja with her partner Ron Murray. Sarah also performed as a classical violist with the Resonance String Orchestra & Bendigo Symphony Orchestra. She lectured in the field of Indigenous justice and human rights, and worked as a theatre producer at fortyfivedownstairs and the Melbourne Fringe Festival.

Brodie Murray

Storyteller

Brodie Murray is an award-winning storyteller, playwright and performing artist driven to tell the stories of Victorian Aboriginal peoples’ survival. His work debuted at the 2021 Yirramboi First Nations Arts Festival in Melbourne, and received the Melbourne Fringe Best Emerging Indigenous Artist Award and Young Creatives Award. He is currently studying at the VCA in Melbourne.

Matteo Curio

Colourist & Finishing

Matteo Curio has 30 years experience in content production and post-production, helping businesses of all sizes enhance their video strategies, streamline workflows to reduce costs, and elevate content quality. He is also a coach and trainer, mentoring with tailored group and one-on-one sessions.

Wamba Wamba

The Wamba Wamba are an Aboriginal Australian people in north-Western Victoria and south-western New South Wales, including in the Mallee and the Riverina regions. Traditional Wamba-Wamba territory occupied the area around the Loddon River, reaching northwards from Kerang to Swan Hill, Victoria, and including the area of the Avoca River, southwards towards Quambatook. In a northeasterly direction, their territory ran up, over the New South Wales-Victorian border to Booroorban, Moulamein, and extended to the vicinity of Barham, Lake Boga and Boora in Victoria.

When I first met with Uncle Ron Murray about a dreaming story, he said his people had lost their salt lake dreaming stories due to colonisation. But after seeing my work, he felt inspired to write a new one, both for his people and for the film. With this collaboration, we now find ourselves merging ancient and contemporary storytelling to connect with the spirit of the land.

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No visual effects were used in the making of this film.

DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT

Eagle Eye emerged from my journey as an abstract aerial photographer, capturing the natural beauty of Victoria's salt lakes. For over five years, I've developed a unique technique—transforming these landscapes into abstract art without altering the photographs from their original colour or form. This process became a personal exploration, uncovering layers of story and meaning within untouched natural imagery. The success of my photographic work inspired me to extend this vision into the moving image.

Music has always been integral to my creative process. Ben Last, a local electronic music producer for over 30 years, incorporates theta waves into sound journey workshops, providing the ideal soundscape for Eagle Eye. His ethereal compositions reflect the dream-like qualities of my cinematography. And the rhythmic nature of his work enabled me to synchronise the film’s story beats with the beats in the music - matching the shifts, reveals and transitions in the visuals with the music’s rhythmic pulse, for an immersive experience.

A pivotal moment came when I met with an old friend, Dion Brownfield, a music producer who works in remote indigenous communities and helped launch the career of Baker Boy. He introduced me to Uncle Ron, a cultural custodian of the Wamba Wamba people, on whose land these salt lakes sit. Uncle Ron shared that his community had lost their salt-lake dreaming stories. After seeing my work, he felt inspired to write a new one, both for his people and for the film. This collaboration adds a profound layer to the project, merging ancient and contemporary storytelling to reconnect with the spirit of the land.

Eagle Eye refers to the top-down perspective from which Aboriginal dot-paintings are viewed - from the height of a soaring eagle, much like the view from my drone. With Eagle Eye, my aim is to honour this tradition, offering a cinematic interpretation that weaves together natural landscapes, ethereal rhythm and timeless culture.