A dark sound stage seen from the doorway: one tungsten lamp throws a warm beam through haze toward a dark screen; a camera on a dolly track, flags, a small monitor, an apple box, cables taped across the floor.

Last Light
Pictures

Films built from the music outward.

EMBER poster: a small glowing ember with a cracked shell and molten heart in a dark ash bed.
The studio's first animated picture · In production

Ember

One small light against the whole cold night.

The last ember of a dying campfire has until dawn to relight the fire before the frost reaches the family sleeping beside it. Scored note for note to Martin Landh's "Guna": the smallest hero the studio has ever cast.

Enter the night
SHATTERED ILLUSIONS poster: a brass fleet sailing into fog.
A steampunk war film · In production

Shattered Illusions

He sailed into the fog to keep it from his door. The fog came anyway.

The last brass fleet, the iron leviathans, and the family on the dock. The poster, the cast, the first locked footage, and the whole production bible, open to the curious.

Enter the fog
HARVEST poster: a Roman soldier walking home through a wheat field at the last light.
A Roman epic from one piece of music · In production

Harvest

The war is over. The walk home isn't.

Built in a single day from a single track: a farmer-soldier walks the last wheat field home while the war flashes shorter behind his eyes with every step, until only the wheat remains. Meet the Varro family and hear the music that chose the ending.

Walk the field
THE COOKIE JOB poster: a boy in pyjamas eyeing a cookie jar, heist-movie style.
Released · 40 seconds · silent here

The Cookie Job

One kid. One jar. Zero regrets.

The heist caper starring Noah in his first motion picture. The whole film plays here without its sound; the premiere page has it with the score and the crumbs. Rated C for Crumbs.

Watch it with sound
DEAD AIR key art: a night-shift radio operator in neon dark.
Story in development · the writers' room

Dead Air

The night-shift operator of the last radio station picks up her own voice, broadcasting from tomorrow night.

The key art and the teaser were built first, the way you would find relics of a lost picture. Now it enters the pipeline for real: the track hunt is next, and the story that survives the listen becomes the film. Also on the slates: Never the End, and two untitled pictures.

A Rod & Staff Media studio · the way home
Family films under the A NAPTIME PRODUCTION banner · stills and motion by Higgsfield & Google · scores licensed via Epidemic Sound · produced with Maeve

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