Since 2019 we have made film, social, brand and interactive work out of Kinshasa and London — for founders, labels and institutions with something worth showing. One team, from the first conversation to the final export.
Work · 6 projects · 2023–2026
Every one of these started as a conversation about what the thing was actually for.
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2026
Our own game, designed and built in-house — art, engineering and sound. One thumb, endless traffic, and a soundtrack recorded with musicians in Matonge. Android first, because that is where the players are.
2025
We designed the waveform orb and its listening, thinking and speaking states, the live transcript, barge-in that cuts a reply mid-sentence, and the hand-off back to text. Motion covers the latency instead of hiding it.
2025
Written in HyperFrames, HeyGen's open-source framework: each scene is HTML, timed with data-start and data-duration on a single GSAP timeline. The 16:9, 9:16 and 1:1 cuts render from one source, and a copy change re-renders in CI.
2025
One six-minute film, six grower portraits and a vertical series that ran through the season. Shot for the edit, so the cutdowns were planned on the slope rather than salvaged afterwards.
2024
A logotype drawn from the joints themselves, a type system that survives a stencil and a spray gun, and an archive site that finally puts four decades of drawings in front of buyers.
2023
Static, offline-tolerant and editable from a phone by a team of three. Line-up, tickets and travel held up on the morning the programme dropped, on 2G, with no server to scale.
Services · 4 disciplines
Four disciplines, one team. Most projects use two or three of them together.
Documentary, brand film and product work. Directed, shot and cut in-house, with the cutdowns planned from the shot list rather than salvaged in the edit.
Content built for the way people actually scroll: vertical-first, subtitled by default, and enough of it to keep a channel alive for a quarter.
Names, marks, type systems and the rules that keep them honest six months later. Built as a working kit, not a 90-page PDF nobody opens.
Sites, interfaces and the odd game. Fast, accessible, built so your team can change the copy without calling us — and so the states nobody demos still work.
Film & Motion
Brand & Web
Product & Interactive
Process · 4 steps · 6–10 weeks typical
The same four steps every time, whether it is a six-minute film, a logotype or a shipped build.
Read the room
Half a day, everyone in the room. We work out what the thing is for, who it has to reach and what would count as it working. You leave with a one-page brief and a number.
Draw it first
Treatment, boards, a schedule and a shot list you can actually argue with. Nothing goes into production until you have seen the shape of it on paper.
Make it
Small crew, real locations, long days. We build for the edit — the cutdowns, the vertical version and the states nobody demos are planned in, not scavenged afterwards.
Hand it over
Two rounds of notes, colour, sound, and every deliverable exported to spec. You get the masters, the project files, the repository and the fonts. It is your work.
About · Est. 2019 · Kinshasa / London
Twelve projects a year, three languages, two cities — and a producer who answers the phone.
We would rather make one thing properly than five things quickly.
We started in 2019 making documentary work for founders who could not explain what they had built. The studio grew outwards from the edit: the film, the cutdowns, the identity around it, the site it lands on, and lately the product itself — interfaces, prototypes, a game we shipped ourselves.
Directors, editors, designers and engineers, working in English, French and Lingala out of Kinshasa and London. We take on roughly a dozen projects a year. That is a deliberate number: it is how many we can be present for.
Founded
2019
Projects a year
12
Languages on set
3
Clients who come back
80%
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They shipped the hardest part first. Voice Mode went from a mood board to something we could hold in our hands in five weeks, and the interruption behaviour is still the thing people mention.
We changed the price twice in launch week. Both times the film was back, in three ratios, before the end of the day. Nobody re-opened an edit.
Nine days on the slopes with three of them and no fuss. The growers recognised themselves in the film, which is the only review that matters to us.
Forty years of drawings were in a cupboard. Now they are the business. The mark came out of our own joints, which nobody else thought to look at.
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A few lines is plenty. What you are making, who it has to reach, and when it has to be live.
We answer every inquiry within two working days, and we will tell you honestly if we are the wrong studio for it.
Budgets welcome but not required. A range is enough to start.
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