MIKESTANIFORTH

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MIKE

Emmy-nominated cinematographer

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The overlap

A cinematographer’s A practical approach to

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A painting. A camera move. A loop.

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For contemporary artists

Your artwork.
A film of its own.

Invite people into your painting. I create a cinematic fly-through from one of your artworks, with a credited feature on my Instagram included.

  • 20-second film
  • 2 revision rounds
  • £350 total
Explore artwork film commissions
A frame from Ivan showing the painted chamber and two figures, reinterpreted from Ilya Repin’s artworkA sharp close view of Ivan’s eyes and expression in the artwork film
Ivan · a film by Mike StaniforthSelf-directed example based on Ilya Repin’s 1885 painting.
Selected credentialsFilm / creative technology
  1. Emmy-nominated

    2024 cinematography nomination

  2. Sports Emmy-nominated series

    All or Nothing: Manchester City

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All or Nothing: Manchester City still or key artWatch trailer

Selected work

A few things I’ve shot.

All or Nothing: Manchester City still or key art
Sports documentary series

All or Nothing: Manchester City

Amazon Prime / Sports Emmy-nominated series
The Full Monty still or key art
High-end television

The Full Monty

Disney+ / FX / Additional Director of Photography
Red Rose still or key art
High-end television

Red Rose

Netflix / BBC Three / Additional Director of Photography
Sexy Beast still or key art
High-end television

Sexy Beast

Paramount+ / 2nd Unit

Built by Mike

A few things I’ve made.

I design and build tools around the way people actually work. Here are two image engines: one for SeenMade, and one built for 4K Media.

What I build
SeenMade Motion Engine’s actual canvas interface with connected image workflow nodes
01SeenMade · In development

An image workflow I can shape.

I’m building SeenMade’s creative workspace to connect references, image generation and edits on one canvas. It keeps the steps visible, so I can review a result and change what comes next.

FourK Media’s image engine interface showing a sample image in its local demo workspace
024K Media · Image engine

From a brief to an image.

I built 4K Media a branded image tool: add a brief and references, choose a format, then generate and download. Recent images stay easy to find. Shown here with demo content.

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