A studio attentive to human experience,
bringing clarity to consequential work.

A studio attentive to human experience,
bringing clarity to consequential work.

A studio attentive to human experience,
bringing clarity to consequential work.

We make strategic
video productions for:

We make strategic
video productions for:

We create video for organizations navigating complexity

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About

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Our specialty is video for organizations whose work is complex, technical, or consequential — in architecture, engineering, construction, infrastructure, deep tech, climate, and more. We help shape how that work is understood, with care for both the efforts themselves and the people engaged in them.

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What

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Capabilities

We work across three connected areas.

Our practice begins before production and extends beyond any single deliverable.

Strategic Development

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Clarity before momentum.

We help organizations identify where clarity matters most. This includes defining purpose, audience, and the role video should play before production begins. The outcome is direction and alignment.

Strategic Development

1

Clarity before momentum.

We help organizations identify where clarity matters most. This includes defining purpose, audience, and the role video should play before production begins. The outcome is direction and alignment.

Strategic Development

1

Clarity before momentum.

We help organizations identify where clarity matters most. This includes defining purpose, audience, and the role video should play before production begins. The outcome is direction and alignment.

Video Production & Editing

2

Work made to hold attention.

We produce documentary, branded, and corporate video with a high degree of care and precision. From filming through post-production, the focus is on accuracy, context, and restraint. The work is designed to be useful, not just expressive.

Video Production & Editing

2

Work made to hold attention.

We produce documentary, branded, and corporate video with a high degree of care and precision. From filming through post-production, the focus is on accuracy, context, and restraint. The work is designed to be useful, not just expressive.

Video Production & Editing

2

Work made to hold attention.

We produce documentary, branded, and corporate video with a high degree of care and precision. From filming through post-production, the focus is on accuracy, context, and restraint. The work is designed to be useful, not just expressive.

Communication Frameworks

3

Building video into how organizations actually operate.

We design and implement video-based frameworks that support onboarding, education, decision-making, and proposals. This work captures knowledge, explains process and risk, and reduces repeated explanation over time. The result is durable communications infrastructure owned by the organization and built to last.

Communication Frameworks

3

Building video into how organizations actually operate.

We design and implement video-based frameworks that support onboarding, education, decision-making, and proposals. This work captures knowledge, explains process and risk, and reduces repeated explanation over time. The result is durable communications infrastructure owned by the organization and built to last.

Communication Frameworks

3

Building video into how organizations actually operate.

We design and implement video-based frameworks that support onboarding, education, decision-making, and proposals. This work captures knowledge, explains process and risk, and reduces repeated explanation over time. The result is durable communications infrastructure owned by the organization and built to last.

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How

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How we work

We treat video as both a creative medium and an operational one.

That means starting upstream, making deliberate decisions, and building work that integrates into existing workflows rather than sitting alongside them.

The goal is not more output, but greater understanding.

Our work includes client engagements and a small number of self-initiated projects

Both are shaped by the same standards.

"Imagine, Build."

In addition to client work, we also create work of our own.

Imagine, Build. is our original documentary series about the wonders behind consequential work — the systems, structures, and decisions that quietly shape how people live, move, and understand the world.

The series is made to be satisfying to a broad audience while remaining useful to the people who commission, design, build, and communicate complex work.

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Where

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Available for work everywhere.

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Founder

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Tristen Eaton

Founder & Principal

Present from start to finish.

I lead Held and stay directly involved from early framing through final delivery, with an emphasis on clarity and care.

Get in touch

Get in touch

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Contact

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Inquiries

Tell us about your project, question, or idea. We’ll get back to you within 1–2 business days.

Tell us about your project, question, or idea. We’ll get back to you within 1–2 business days.

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