01ELYZRA · UNIT
Aubrie Price
Director-writer. Former documentary photographer. Treats the cut as a sentence.
CHAPTER 00 · PHILOSOPHY
Story first.Craft always.
We direct presence, not content. A short manifesto on how we work, whom we work with, and why we take the long way.
I
We direct presence.
Content is a race. Presence is a practice. Our work is to earn a viewer’s attention and repay it with care — whether that viewer is one person or one million.
II
Silence is a frame.
We make room in our edits for what is not said. A story that moves too fast arrives nowhere. We believe in holds, in breaths, in the shot that refuses to cut.
III
Craft compounds.
We shoot on film when the story calls for it. We grade by hand. We spend the week on the sound mix. Nothing in our process is fast, and nothing in our work ages the way fast work does.
IV
The subject, not the self.
Our name goes last in the credits. The people we film are not material — they are collaborators. We return the work to them before we return it to our clients.
V
Archive everything.
Every project becomes a registered record: copyright, rushes, transcripts, correspondence. A hundred years from now, our work will still be able to name itself.
— END CREDITS —
The Unit
Eight rooms, one telephone. We hire for patience and instinct over reel length.
02ELYZRA · UNIT
Ximena Dudley
Shoots on 16mm when the story asks. Lights rooms like chapels.
03ELYZRA · UNIT
Brooks Herrera
Keeps the shoot quiet enough to hear the room breathe.
04ELYZRA · UNIT
Colter Soto
Rhythm is the argument. Cuts to breath, not to beat.