GIH Opening Movie

The Challenge

The Genolier Innovation Hub (GIH), a medical research innovation cluster based in Genolier, Switzerland, needed an opening film for its auditorium: an extraordinary screen covering a 270-degree field of view at 20K horizontal resolution, running at 50 frames per second. Producing a film built specifically for that resolution and that field of view, in a matter of months, was a technical challenge unlike anything we'd tackled before.

Our Approach

We spent months working out how to actually capture footage at that scale, then built a custom three-camera rig from scratch, each camera shooting 8K at 50fps, for a combined 24K of usable resolution. A dedicated R&D phase also produced a custom-built FPV drone for the shoot. Over seven days of filming across the Swiss landscape, we captured the raw material for the film, before moving into a heavy, months-long post-production process to process and stitch footage at the resolution the screen demanded. The film also includes a fully 3D-animated sequence running 15 to 20 seconds. We deliberately avoided the safe, corporate route. Instead of a conventional showreel, we leaned into FPV drone work and full 3D sequences, chasing a genuine "wow" moment: the goal was for spectators to sit down and immediately feel they were inside a hub of serious innovation and R&D, not watching a standard institutional film.