FILM — DIR + DP · FOR ILLUMINA
Illumina
HERO FILM · 02:48
VIENNA — AT · 2026
○ SCROLL — THE CASE
Client
Illumina
Role
Direction + Cinematography
Format
8K R3D · 2.39:1
Location
Vienna + San Diego
Year
2026
○ 01 — THE FILM
A genomics company asked for a film about machines. We shot the people who read light for a living instead.
The brief
Auftrag
Launch film for a sequencing platform — the kind of machine that usually gets lit like a refrigerator and scored like a car ad. Illumina wanted something their scientists would not be embarrassed by, shot in the actual labs, with the actual people, on a schedule that respected running experiments.
The approach
Umsetzung
We treated the lab like a landscape: long lenses, available light augmented rather than replaced, machines heard before they are seen. Three movements — sample, signal, answer — cut to the rhythm of the instruments themselves. Graded warm against the cliche of teal science.
Two units, five days, no second takes of anything alive.
05
Shoot days — two units
8K
R3D · V-Raptor XE · 2.39:1
02:48
Final runtime — hero cut
02 — BEHIND THE SCENES
PRODUCTION STILLS · ROLL 23
FR 0231
GAFFER’S VIEW — LAB 4
FR 0225
V-RAPTOR ON THE SLIDER
FR 0219
CLEANROOM PREP
FR 0213
SAN DIEGO UNIT — DAY 2
FR 0207
THE 300MM SHOT
FR 0201
GRADE SUITE 02:00
FR 0195
SAMPLE HANDLING — MACRO
FR 0189
WRAP FRAME
Direction + DP
Kevin Pham
Production
Morea GmbH · Kevin Pham LLC (US unit)
Edit + Grade
Morea, Vienna
Sound
TBD — placeholder credit
Client
Illumina
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