31/08/2025
🫳🏽 Drop #3: How do you tell a 300-year story with nothing but hands?
When we were tasked to create a film for Misk titled “A Nation: Built”, the creative brief came with two big challenges:
1. The concept was hands-only.
2. It couldn’t feel repetitive or static.
We needed to cover the icons, events, and emotions of three Saudi States across 300 years of history, using nothing but hands.
So, we flipped the lens, literally.
We rigged the camera on the hands themselves, letting them guide the narrative.
The result?
A film told entirely from the perspective of the characters’ hands, every action, every gesture, every era seen through their motion.
We obsessed over:
* Which angle best revealed the meaning behind a gesture
* What a hand’s texture, motion, or stillness says about the person behind it
* The wardrobe, era cues, and subtle leadership traits that would let viewers recognize iconic figures without ever seeing a face
But that led to another question:
How do you let actors move naturally, through conflict, labor, intensity, without being limited by heavy rigs?
The solution: a super-compact camera setup, mounted to the actors’ arms using carbon fiber tubes, strong enough to hold the system, light enough to let them move with total freedom.
It gave us control and fluidity without ever weighing down performance.
🎬 In the end, we built a new kind of storytelling. One that asked:
How much of a person can you reveal through a single hand?
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