Create the foundation
A story, an original voice, a character or a question worth pursuing.
An independent, IP led creative studio
Turn one idea
into a whole world.
We develop original stories, characters and worlds through books, screenplays, music, animation and cinema.
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Through a Black Lens.Open to the world.Stories beyond one form.
Featured originals
Enter a world.
Find a bigger story.
A novel with a city at its heart. A dark comedy with an entire system beneath it. Explore the work behind the image.
Novel · Screen development
Sunlight in the Asylum
In Nairobi’s largest slum, Kamau is building an intelligence to expose the man he believes killed his father.
A novel by Kage Sparks
Animated dark comedy · Comic · Essays
Plantation Drive
Extraction, digital colonisation and what it means to be human as AI takes over more of our work, decisions and everyday lives.
Writing, comic & visual development
CONCEPT ALBUM · SCREEN WORLD
6 Hours Before I Wake
A hospital becomes a gateway to a world where time has no edges.
Explore the world
CONCEPT ALBUM · ORIGINAL STORY
Daughter of the Sun
A story of memory, ambition and what we pass on to the next generation.
Explore the world
YOUNG-ADULT FANTASY · STORY DEVELOPMENT
Kingdom of the Rebel Kids
A younger generation discovers its agency in a world of adventure.
Explore the worldThe creative showcase
World
Done Changed.
Original songs open into cinematic stories and distinctive visual worlds. Explore Fireball, Le Monde est Fou and Plantation Drive.
Music film
Fireball
Religion and technology intertwine as a world on the edge of destruction parties towards its final call.
Music video completed
Surreal socio-political cinema
Le Monde est Fou
Impossible adventures unfold in a modern world where the abnormal becomes ordinary.
Film scenes & visual developmentMusic · Film · Surreal storytelling
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One idea. Several ways in.
The story grows
with every form.
Plantation Drive begins with a question about extraction. The song gives it a voice. The comic makes pressure visible. The essay explores its meaning. The animated series brings us into Kwame’s absurd working life.
Each form offers its own experience, connected by a shared point of view.
Explore the body of workOriginal worlds. Selected partnerships.
We create our own worlds—and help selected partners build theirs.
Writing, narrative development, character creation, music and visual direction. We bring an idea into focus and develop the work that makes it tangible.
Work with the studioMake it tangible
Writing, music, scenes, comics and visual development that let people experience the idea.
Develop its future
Build the right path towards publication, production and audiences, with collaborators suited to the work.
The Nomadic Star perspective
Culture gives it meaning.
People give it direction.
African and Black perspectives shape the work. Writing, authorship and creative judgement give each project its voice. Technology expands how that vision can be realised.
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