Nollistudio Research

The Research Archive

Every long-form film gets a permanent companion — the sources, the research that got cut, and the diagrams and models we built along the way.

The film always leaves something behind — the tangent that didn't fit, the source I read twice. This is where it goes.

Latest entries

Archive 011

Cyberpunk — Hong Kong

What the neon actually was, and why almost none of it is still up there.

Archive 010

Tong Lau, Part One

A city that never existed, mapped from the two texts that invented it.

Archive 009

The Scaffolding Problem

A tower tall enough to break the rules it was designed under.

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