We turn the photographs your family already treasures into quiet,
beautiful films: restored, gently brought to life, and set to music. For a service,
an anniversary, or a birthday worth remembering. Reviewed and approved by you
before anyone else sees it.
These are theme demonstrations, not finished films.
Each one was built from one or two photographs so the setting, the pacing
and the music can be judged in half a minute. A family’s own film is built
from their whole collection and runs far longer.
Delivered length — Tribute Film 3–6 minutes ·
Life Story Trailer 60–90 seconds ·
Anniversary “Our Story” 2–3 minutes ·
Milestone or Retirement 1–2 minutes.
Memorial themes
Not every family wants gold and angels. These are the other settings for a memorial film, so there is something to offer whatever a family believes.
The full tribute film in miniature: one life carried across its own seasons. Rain on a window, then frost, then blossom. A young woman laughing in a garden in the sixties, and the same woman by a window sixty years later. This is what photographs in motion look like when they are built into a whole film rather than sold one at a time. Thirty-three seconds.
A marriage that crossed two cultures, and the home she left behind. Incense in a bowl
of ash, marigold garlands along a shelf, a brass Buddha with a white lotus set in front
of it — and his cap still hanging on the same hook as her scarf. For a family whose service will not
look like a stock photograph. Thirty-three seconds.
A bench in long grass, a coat still over the arm of it, a cup of tea going cold,
and a gate standing open at the end of the path. Nobody appears in it — which is
the point. For families who want somewhere peaceful rather than somewhere holy.
Thirty-eight seconds.
Meeting someone who went before them. A hallway with the light at the end of it,
a table laid for two, two coats still on their hooks — and one old hand
on the wood with a younger one coming to rest over it. No faces at all.
Thirty-eight seconds.
Everything above is a trailer: thirty-odd seconds, built to be shown once. This is the
other thing we make. A photo tribute is a family’s own photographs,
moved and cut to music, at full length — the film that plays in the room while
people arrive.
A Korean Christian funeral. Two people who arrived in New York in 1985, met over a
coffee counter, opened a dry cleaning shop and owned it outright, raised two children
into professions, and died a year apart. Fifty-four photographs, cut to a cello
elegy written for it, with the closing card in Korean. The wreaths, the mourning
armband and the white hair clip are correct to the tradition — but the story
underneath travels to any family who built something by hand.
Three minutes ten.
Entirely fictional. No part of this is a real person, a real photograph or a real
family. The same film is also made as a tribute film, where the photographs
move — she lifts the cup, he turns his head, the flowers are laid.
A child and the pet who went with them, together in a place beyond this one.
Built from the family’s own photographs, ending on their name and the days they were here.
Built from one photograph of the child and one of his cat. His face is never drawn —
it is photographed, enlarged and placed in the scene, so the face in the film is
the face in the album. 38 seconds.
Please note the timecode of anything that needs changing —
“0:14, cat too large”, “0:22, cut is abrupt” — rather than describing it generally.
Timecoded notes get fixed in one pass; general notes usually take three.
