Meridian: film that shows the work

Situation

Meridian had spent three years making films about their values and none about what they actually do. The result was a library nobody watched twice.

Strategy

We stopped shooting interviews and started shooting process. Nobody explains the craft on camera; you simply watch it happen, which is faster and harder to fake.

• Process over testimony, always
• One long take before any cut is allowed
• Sound recorded on location, never replaced

Work

Four days on site, three films, one edit suite. The longest cut runs two minutes and holds, because there is something to watch in every second of it.