The Wed Films

The work is three chapter films, so the site is built around them rather than around a gallery. Paper, wine and ink for the palette; Spectral for the serif. Deliberately warmer and more printed-feeling than the photography archive — a different client, a different identity, not a recolour of the last project.

The chapter clips were encoded through FFmpeg to sizes that would actually stream — the largest is 43MB, and past GitHub's 100MB hard limit only because it was compressed hard first.

They're kept out of git and live on the server instead, so a deploy pulls source without dragging tens of megabytes of video through every clone.

The contact form posts to a Next.js Edge API route that relays the enquiry straight to the studio's WhatsApp. For a studio that runs on WhatsApp anyway, an enquiry landing in an inbox nobody checks is the same as no enquiry.

Credentials for the relay are server-side environment variables on the systemd unit — never in the repo, never in a client bundle.