Carl Naus mainly does things with cameras, food and cooperation - a thirst for purpose channelled into a practical approach fruiting in many experiments. He is ecologically oriented, obsessively curious and friendly. 15+ years in the trades of video production and graphic design, usually with causes, NGOs and arts orgs. Always pulls the Fool in tarot.

Selected Projects

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Mother Tongue: a Sri Lankan food story

Documentary film • 2025
Co-director / Producer / DOP / Editor

Motivated by things that are very tasty, Bhagya and Carl travel to the motherland of Sri Lanka to document forest gardens, coconut mills, rice paddies and Aachi’s house. After a couple years bringing Lankan flavours to the people of Ōtepoti - and armed with the cultural knowledge of diaspora kids - they want to know: Who grew this and why is it so delicious?

Trailer on youtube

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Yours / Ōtepoti Possibilities Cooperative

Cooperative + café and venue • 2022-2024
Establishing cooperator / Organiser / Chef

Yours is worker owned and managed café/venue that imagines a better food system and provides space for radical action, music, art and cooperation.

Yours on instagram • ŌPCo manifesto

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Loop Groop

Community bicycle workshop • 2016-2019
Establishing member / Organiser / Mechanic

We rescue trash and make it useful again. Mainly bicycles. We believe in cooperation, democracy, circularity, sharing, openness, wisdom, justice, ecology and mahi.

Archived on facebook