A studio practice —

Film, philosophy, and product, made on one conviction: you feel what changes you before you understand it.

A moving image acts on you before you have decided anything about it — your breath, your attention, what you are able to feel next. Almost none of what reaches you was made with that in mind. This is the other kind, and the clearest way in is a Trinity Video: a film of the thing you’ve been carrying.

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The Studio

One conviction. Several forms.

The same conviction runs under all of it: meaning isn’t handed to a mind, it’s built in a body — found and made at once, in a space someone holds open for you. Each of these is that conviction taking a different form — a film, a practice, a tool, a page. Not a portfolio. One question, asked in each of the shapes it needed.

Selected work, with and for

Amazon Studios · Carolina Hurricanes · Mastin Kipp · Sacred Fire Foundation · Blue Deer Center · nCino · Pardee Hospital · UNCW Center for Innovation · Living Web Farms · Cucalorus · Provis Media · Lucid Visions Media · Heart-Fueled Tools · Vegan Scratch Kitchen · LPD · Congressional political campaigns · Music videos

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Work with Wilkin

Direct, by the hour, shaped to what you’re carrying.

Not everything needs a brand built around it. Sometimes it’s just my eye on your work, one-to-one — creative direction, operations, the tools underneath. When what you need is the software itself — built around your people, with the systems under it — that’s Kirby & Wilks, with Hamilton Kirby.

Creative Direction

Vision, story, and somatic language applied to your brand, campaign, or piece — the eye behind the work, without the full engagement.

When the work is good and it still isn’t landing.

Business Operations

Systems, process, and the connective tissue that lets a small practice run like a larger one — so the work, not the admin, sets the pace.

When the admin quietly became the job.

Product · AI Integration

Product management, AI integration, and systems that keep content creation true to the work — the tools and pipelines themselves, built and left running.

When the tools should be carrying more than they are.

Scoped to the work rather than the hour — what it costs depends on what it’s worth to you, which is a conversation, not a number on a card. Start one →