MADWORKSHOP provided presentation support for Lightscape, a feature-length film by artist Doug Aitken, on view at the Marciano Art Foundation through May 17th, 2025.

Lightscape is an immersive experience, occupying a huge indoor space lined with multiple projection screens. Driven largely by music, the film features characters interacting with one another as they move through landscapes of the American West Coast. Aitken collaborated with the L.A. Master Chorale and the L.A. Philharmonic, and incorporated his own original compositions and those of Beck and others, to create a dreamlike experience for the viewer. 

It premiered at the Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles in November 2024, posing the questions, “Where are we now?” and “Where are we going?” How poignant these questions would become, with the wind and fires arriving in the Los Angeles area less than two months later.