Eleanor welcomes Stoichemaan
Eleanor welcomes Stoichemaan, an experimental studio dedicated to creative freedom and cinematic precision.
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Eleanor, the global creative company, announces US representation of STChM, the director-cinematographer studio whose work explores the boundaries between human creativity and emerging technology.
Recently recognised at Ciclope for their award-winning film Everyone Loves Muscles, STChM has become known for work that combines conceptual discipline with distinctive visual identity. The studio’s practice is grounded in experimentation, where cinematic design and philosophical structure meet to form a clear but unconventional approach to storytelling.
Their latest project, Bon Bon, a short film depicting a fictional 1970s car traveling through twenty-five different narrative settings, demonstrates the studio’s commitment to efficiency and exploration. Conceived, designed, and executed in just two days, the project extends their interest in how emerging tools can expand the creative process.
“We essentially just use AI as a film camera,” says STChM, “Once you understand how to prompt, you get results quickly and can make and make and build up footage. Once you’ve created the clips, you step into the film as filmmakers. You craft and craft with your filmmaker brain, experience, and taste, knowing what to keep in and take out.” The duo offers expert eyes, their combined experience spans 40 years in film.
STChM’s work ranges from the surreal lyricism of Everyone Loves Muscles to the graphic clarity of Splitcuits and The Pointy Nose Chronicles. Each film reflects a consistent pursuit of cinematic form that is both structured and intuitive, where the absurd and the precise coexist.
Internally, STChM describes its cumulative creative process through what it calls the 500 Years Metric, a measure that reflects the intensity of experimentation and accumulated experience rather than chronological time. The figure represents an abstract calculation of creative investment, built from iteration, error, and refinement across multiple disciplines.
“We’re in a moment of creative transformation, and that’s when the world needs daring voices,” says Sophie Gold, President of Eleanor. “STChM is very exciting, technically brilliant, narratively subversive, and unafraid to blend human intuition with machine invention.”
For STChM, joining Eleanor represents a shared belief in experimentation as a form of precision. “Eleanor provides a framework that values process as much as outcome,” they state. “This partnership allows us to extend our research into narrative, image, and structure with greater freedom.”
