Every picture can be
a motion picture.

ARQ, a 21st century motion picture studio

Spectrum / Made for CapCut

01 / The practice

FDCT / ARQ

Every idea
needs a story.

Everywhere there are stories to tell, and stories are how ideas become understood. The way we tell them is changing.

Forward-Deployed
Creative Technologies.

We believe that when technology is used creatively, and creativity is used as a technology, remarkable things become possible, far beyond film. We build the systems that bring ideas to life, and make the work behind them lighter.

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02 / Selected pictures

Films made with a point of view.

Live action.

Spectrum

02:50

Made for CapCut

Reality

01:55

A question becomes a world. / Made for BytePlus

TERA-PI

03:41

A familiar room. An unfamiliar reality.

Tethered Forever

03:29

Music video / Made for Tether

03 / Animation

There is more than one way to tell it.

Animation.

A Tale About Jupiter

02:24

An animated film for Happy Horse.

Monet

01:42

Art, seen through another pair of eyes.

City of the Sky

02:15

An imagined city above the clouds.

San Francisco

04:28

The City of Tech · Episode 1

04 / The ARQ manifestoA belief in what stories can make possible.

Securing
the Motion
Picture.

Securing the inspiration
that builds the future.

A child on a couch in a dark room, lit by the television

The stories people grow up with become part of what they imagine is possible. We believe caring for that imagination is a responsibility that reaches beyond the screen.

Read the manifesto

05 / Articles

All articles