Boutique Animation House · Est. 2019
Every Frame,
A Painting.
Ink on glass. Charcoal on paper. Stop-motion lit by lamps the size of a thumbnail. Hand-crafted short films for festivals, platforms, and brands.
Selected Works · 2022–2025
The Gallery
Each tile is a film. Click to enter the director's notes, festival laurels, and the story behind the frame.
The Cartographer
Nadia Volkov
Ink & Absence
Sebastián Mora
Paper City
Yuki Tanaka
Between Breaths
Amara Diallo
The Light Table Sessions
Celluloid Studio
The Studio · Warsaw, Poland
Where film begins
as a question.
A converted 19th-century printing house. Three animators. One shared obsession with the handmade image.
In Their Own Words
The Directors' Table
Isabelle Fontaine
Programmer, Cannes Court Métrage
Celluloid handed us back something we'd forgotten film could do — make you feel the weight of a single frame.
Marcus Webb
Head of Shorts, MUBI Originals
This is what happens when patience and obsession share the same light table. Every film they make is a proof of concept for cinema itself.
Priya Nair
Executive Creative Director, Ogilvy Mumbai
We briefed them on a sixty-second brand film. They delivered a sixty-second reason to believe in the brand again.
47
Films Completed
23
Festival Awards
6
Palme d'Or Noms
12
Countries Screened
Featured Films
Selected Works
Full Portfolio
Saltwater Memory
Directed by Nadia Volkov
A coastal town's collective memory dissolves and re-forms with the tides. Painted frame by frame on a single pane of glass, then destroyed. What remains is the film.
Client
Independent / Festival Circuit
Frames
17,280
Festival Circuit
Sundance · Berlin · Tribeca
The Accordion Man
Directed by Yuki Tanaka
An elderly busker replays the same three songs for forty years. Each note is a puppet movement. Each movement is a year of his life. 9,600 individual frames.
Client
MUBI Originals
Frames
9,600
Festival Circuit
Annecy · SXSW · Ottawa
Meridian — 60 Seconds
Directed by Sebastián Mora
A brand spot for Meridian Watches. A paper city assembles itself in exactly sixty seconds — one second per year of the brand's history. Audiences forgot it was an ad.
Client
Meridian Watches / Ogilvy
Frames
1,440
Festival Circuit
Brand Film Festival · Cannes Lions
The Next Generation
Emerging
Voices
Animators we've mentored, championed, and helped send to festivals. The gallery is always open.
Las Mariposas de Hierro
Tomás Herrera
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Former architecture student. First film. 14 months in a one-room apartment.
Annecy Contrechamp 2025
The Weight of Water
Zara Okonkwo
Lagos, Nigeria
Sand animated on the same table her grandmother used for bread. Shot in three days.
Pan African Film Festival 2025
Seventeen Winters
Ji-ho Lim
Seoul, South Korea
Traditional ink wash technique applied to contemporary grief. Painted at 3am for six months.
Seoul Short Film Festival 2024
Kolam
Devika Krishnamurthy
Chennai, India
Animated with rice powder on her grandmother's courtyard floor. 6 minutes. No digital tools.
IFFR Rotterdam 2025
Submit Your Short
The gallery is
always looking.
If you've made a short film by hand — any technique, any format, any budget — we want to see it. Every submission is reviewed personally. The best work joins this gallery and enters our mentorship programme.