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SERVICES

Documentaries

We produce documentary — features and short films — from writing to the final master. The crew has been shooting since 2016.

What the work is

Most of these films are shot on location, often a long way from Paris: expeditions, portraits of places, and the people who live in them. We handle the whole chain in-house — writing, shooting, editing, grading, sound.

Selections & awards

The documentary work has taken 40 festival selections and 3 awards, including Best Documentary at the London Independent Film Awards for The Underground Sistine Chapel.

The Underground Sistine Chapel

The Underground Sistine Chapel follows the building of a modern Sistine Chapel inside a former gold foundry in the Paris suburbs. It was directed by Yohann Grignou and Antoine Breuil, funded in cryptocurrency, and released free on decentralised networks.

Selected work

Written up in full — the ask, the constraint, how it was built, and what happened.

Reading

Watch the films

Technology documentaries

The gno.land series

Adventure documentaries

The Elemen’Terre Project — Greenland

The Elemen’Terre Project — Iceland

The Elemen’Terre Project — The Azores

The films

The laurels

40 festival selections · 3 awards · 2021–2025

The work, in frames

The Underground Sistine Chapel poster — a hooded figure seated before the fresco, cast names belowRedes Comunitarias poster — a rider on horseback passing a grazing horse in a rural yardI'm Just a Lost Guy poster — a silhouette seen from behind, inside a ring of drifting jellyfishLe Titanic des cieux poster — a vintage photo of a zeppelin airship over a field, a hay cart belowBest Tricks poster — a performer kneeling and shouting in a rain-soaked autumn park, slackline in handNew Horizons poster — a silhouette on a sailboat at sunset, holding a mug, festival laurels belowDu Macro au Micro poster — a snorkeller and a shark, shot from below in deep blue waterClosest poster — a fire-breathing performance, flame arcing across a starlit skyGift poster — a performer backflips through fire above another breathing flame, in a derelict hallVoyage Intérieur poster — an abstract swirl of blue ink and paintStill Moving poster — a figure sits at the roof edge of a grey high-rise housing blockBreathe poster — an extreme close-up of a weathered face, eyes closed, in black and whiteZero Vulnerability poster — a performer in an aerial hoop above the open seaVintage cars parked along a row of pastel colonial buildings, laundry strung across a balconyFive people gathered around a table playing dominoes on a shaded street cornerTwo sailors in red foul-weather gear wrestle a sail on a pitching foredeck as spray fliesA two-masted sailboat anchored among ice floes in a misty fjord, two paddleboarders nearbyMacro photograph of a translucent planktonic crustacean, backlit against dark waterMusicians in tall white feather headdresses play panpipes together, arms on each other’s shouldersA woman smiles in a plastic chair for an on-camera interview, a dog resting at her feetMarathon runners cross a nightlit finish line in Paris, an illuminated domed monument behindA chef arranges colourful garnish on plates of chilled tomato soup in a restaurant kitchenA sailor at the helm in heavy weather gear, face covered by a red gaiter, a French flag behind

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