Sixteen minutes. Three movements. No highlight reel.

Camille shoots and cuts every film herself and scores it on the upright piano in the workshop. The audio is almost entirely what the microphones heard on the day.

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Why sixteen minutes

A four-minute film is a trailer for a day you already attended. Nobody watches it twice. Sixteen minutes is long enough to hold a whole vow, an entire speech, and the silence before someone starts crying — which is usually the part people come back for.

The three movements are always the same shape: the hours before, the ceremony, and the night. What changes is how long each one needs to be, and that is decided in the edit, not in advance.

What is in one

ElementHow we do it

ElementLengthHow we do it16 minutes, occasionally 18

ElementSoundHow we do itIn-camera and two lavalier microphones at the ceremony

ElementScoreHow we do itOriginal, written and played by Camille on the studio piano

ElementDeliveryHow we do it8 weeks, private Vimeo link plus a downloadable master

ElementPriceHow we do it€1,800 as an add-on, included in The Whole Story

Three films

SifnosAliki & Marios — the sunrise ceremonyCamille’s note on cutting a ceremony that started before the light did.ManiSophia & Léonard — Vathia by candlelightAlmost no artificial light, and what that meant for the score.TuscanyChristina & Andreas — four days near PienzaThe only film we have made that opens on the second day rather than the first.

Camille’s film is sixteen minutes long and our parents have watched it more times than we have.

ChristinaTuscany, October