SAMOURAÏ COOPCablecam & drone
Movement the crew builds itself: cablecam, drone and custom rigs, flown by our own operators. The rig and its pilot come as one unit — in Paris, and a long way from it.
Ninja Cablecam 1D
The film this page opens on is the rig itself. Ninja Cablecam 1D is a cable-mounted camera system the crew develops in the lab — a camera riding a line rigged across the location; cable-cam filming exists for the repeatable move a drone cannot fly and a dolly cannot reach. The title card is honest about what you are looking at: our own hands, mounting the trolley on its cable. You will find no spec sheet here — the film is the demonstration. Bring us the shot instead: tell us the space, the move and the camera, and we will tell you plainly whether this rig is the right way to get it, or point you at a better one.
Built in the lab
Samouraï Coop is a film crew and an engineering studio in one company, and this page is where that stops being a slogan. The cablecam is not rented kit: it is hardware the crew develops in the lab, then takes on location and flies itself. The custom rigs follow the same logic — when a shot calls for a mount that does not exist yet, the people who will fly it are the people who can build it. For a production, that changes what a problem costs on the day: an adjustment is a conversation with the people who built the thing, not a call to a rental house. One company, one conversation, from the shot list to the hardware.
Drone
Drone pilots are part of the crew, not a subcontract. They shoot on the same productions as everyone else — same direction, same grade — so the aerial cinematography cuts with the ground coverage instead of arriving as a stranger’s B-roll. The proof is already on this site, in the crew’s own frames: the aerial panorama that opens the travel promotion page, the two-master anchored in the ice on the documentaries page, the braided river flats in this page’s gallery. That is where this work lives — on the travel shoots and the expedition documentaries, often a long way from Paris, with the pilot standing in the same weather as the rest of the crew.
For production companies
This page is written for production companies as much as for end clients: you have the film, the schedule and a shot that needs movement, and what you want to book is the rig with the person who flies it. That is exactly how it comes — operator and hardware as one unit, folding into your crew for the days that need it, in France or wherever the production goes, or inside a full Samouraï Coop camera team when you want the whole crew. Brief us on the shot, not the gear: the location, the move, the deadline. If the honest answer is a different tool, we will say so. The contact page carries a structured brief for exactly this.
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The work, in frames
