About
A camera, a lot of patience, and no clients to hide behind.
Giliagy is a small studio built the slow way round: years of shooting before a single invoice. What you can judge us on is the footage — which is exactly how we wanted it.
The story
From a channel to a studio.
Giliagy began as a question rather than a business: what does an ordinary thing look like when you slow it down far enough to see it? A pan of vegetables catching flame. A jumping spider turning its head. Lava finding a seam in cold rock. We answered it a few hundred times and put the results on YouTube under the name Giliagy Short Clips.
Doing that for years taught the things a client brief never does: what a frame needs in order to survive being watched on a phone, how much of a shot you can lose to a caption bar, when slow motion carries an idea and when it is simply expensive. That library is now the studio's foundation, and it is the reason we can talk about craft in specifics instead of adjectives.
The studio side is deliberately young. We are opening it with a small number of founding places, because we would rather do three engagements properly than twelve at arm's length — and because the first brands to work with us should get something for the risk they are taking.
How we work
Four things we will not trade away.
01
The person you meet does the work
There is no account layer here to pass you down through. The person who runs your kickoff is on the camera, in the edit, and on the monthly call — and would rather turn a project down than hand it to someone you have never spoken to.
02
Volume without a system is noise
Twenty posts a month mean nothing if each one looks like it came from a different company. The system comes first — grid, type, grade, sound — and the calendar fills it.
03
Trends are borrowed, style is owned
We will use a format that is working. We will not hand you a feed that ages out the month the sound does. What lasts is a way of seeing things that belongs to you — and that takes a few months to build, not a weekend.
04
Say the number out loud
Rates are published on the pricing page rather than revealed on a call. Pass-through costs arrive with the supplier invoice attached. If something underperforms, it is in the monthly report before you have to ask about it.
The studio
Small on purpose.
One person owns every engagement end to end. Around that sits a bench of collaborators we bring in by the day, sized to the shoot rather than to a payroll.
Mana
Founder, director, editor
Shot every frame in the library, cut every clip on the channel, and will be the person who answers your first email. Runs strategy and the camera, which is unusual and is the whole point: the plan is written by someone who has to shoot it.
Brought in by the day
The three ways we shoot
Aerial, macro, high-speed.
Aerial
Height used to explain something — scale, geometry, a route through a place — rather than to prove a drone was present. Most of our aerial work is shot straight down or in one slow, uninterrupted move.
Macro
Close enough that a product stops being a product and becomes a texture. Depth of field measured in millimetres, focus pulled by hand, and lighting that has to do all its work in a very small space.
High-speed
Up to a thousand frames a second, spent on the one moment in a shot that deserves it. Everything else runs at speed — slow motion only reads as slow when something around it is fast.
Collaborators
We are always looking for a good second camera.
If you shoot, cut, write, or mix sound, send work rather than a CV — three links to things you made, and one line on why the third is the best of them.
info@giliagy.comHow to reach us
One address, answered by a person
Everything — briefs, questions, licensing, collaboration — goes to info@giliagy.com and is read the same day.
Calls and shoot dates are scheduled around your timezone. Travel is normal and quoted at cost.