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BLACK DIAMOND

Immersive Film Noir for Stella Artois

We created an interactive film noir for Stella Artois, blending live immersive theatre with digital storytelling.

Working with Mother London and immersive theatre company Punchdrunk, we built an online experience around a classic noir story: a stolen diamond, a curse, two lovers, and the swinging Paris of the 1960s. The narrative followed the diamond as it passed from person to person through the streets of East London, told through cinematic black and white imagery and a rich stereoscopic soundtrack. The experience served two audiences at once: those who had attended the live event, and those discovering the story entirely online.


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The Black Diamond campaign poster alongside six black-and-white character portraits: The Hero, The Love, The Thief, The Traitor, Lola, and The Coward. The poster carries the Stella Artois Black branding and tagline 'Where Film Meets Theatre', with London dates 3rd–21st July.
A black-and-white film still from The Black Diamond: a top-down view of a vintage portable record player with a vinyl record spinning, a hand reaching toward the needle, and a folded copy of Le Figaro newspaper visible in the corner.
A black-and-white film still from The Black Diamond: a figure sits at a brightly lit desk while a vintage polygraph machine in the foreground records wavy lines on a rolling paper tape, the mood tense and interrogative.
A black-and-white film still from The Black Diamond: a hand reaches toward a vintage French rotary payphone mounted on a graffiti-scrawled wall, with a taxi service card and a Griffon sticker visible alongside, and the Stella Artois Black logo on the wall to the left.
  • Behind the scenes on The Black Diamond shoot: a cinema camera on a rig is focused on a dimly lit desk with a vintage typewriter in the background, captured in a dark studio.
  • Behind the scenes on The Black Diamond shoot: crew members gather around a Panasonic broadcast monitor displaying a black-and-white typewriter scene, against a white-painted brick wall.
  • Behind the scenes on The Black Diamond shoot: a hand writes by lamplight on paper, with fountain pens and an ink bottle arranged on a steel surface, styled in the noir atmosphere of the film.
  • Behind the scenes on The Black Diamond shoot: crew members position a blue vintage typewriter on a wooden desk while a large cinema camera rigs in close, in a darkened studio.
  • Behind the scenes on The Black Diamond shoot: crew members adjust a framed painting under bright studio lights, with cameras and lighting equipment visible on either side of the set.
  • Behind the scenes on The Black Diamond shoot: a black vintage car with a British number plate is surrounded by crew members in a large white studio space, with multiple lights and camera rigs visible.
  • Behind the scenes on The Black Diamond shoot: a Panasonic Filmscape broadcast monitor displays a close-up of a hand in the shot, with the same vintage black car visible behind it in the dark studio.

  • Visual material for the Black Diamond was shot in a studio in East London. Some behind the scenes photos.