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Tekle

A documentary series on the people who keep a craft alive without calling it one.

Film Direction Editorial 2022
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Overview
ClientTekle Year2022 ScopeFilm series SectorCulture

Six makers, six trades, one rule: no voiceover. If the work could not explain itself on camera, it did not go in the cut.

We directed and produced the series in sequence over a year, so each film learned from the one before it — the last is the quietest and the best.

It now runs as the studio brief for every film we make: find the hands, hold the shot, cut nothing that is working.

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Hold the shot. Cut nothing that is working.

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The system

No voiceover, ever.

One lens, natural light, sync sound, and a cut discipline that keeps a shot for as long as the work in it takes.

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