FIELD NOTES BY HARRISON LIVINGISSUE 001 / AUG 2026

The elegantchase for better.

A Kiwi filmmaker in London. I run a one-person studio, build the machines behind it, and make useful things from what the work leaves behind.

FILM+SYSTEMS+DISTANCE

NOW Finding the first proper room for HWL Studio. Building product 001. Recording film 001.

LONDON / 10.08.26

THE POINT / NOT THE PITCH

The machines should buy back more of the human life.Not fill every minute of it.

That is the thread through the films, the studio, the products and the running. Better systems. Better work. More room to be a person.

CURRENT CONDITIONS

From inside the work.

Not advice from the finish line. Notes from wherever I actually am.

FIELD / 001IN MOTION

The room before the room

Looking for a secure London base with proper fibre, enough quiet to edit and enough life around it to make better work.

BUILD / 00123 AUG

The shelf before the crowd

The first product is being finished before the audience arrives. Distribution and catalogue grow together from here.

DISTANCE / 050COMPLETE

The first 50K

Finished on 11 July. The useful part was not the medal. It was learning how much distance can be covered without drama.

STAHK / THE PRODUCT SHELF

Made from use.

Tools, grades and references that started inside the real work. Nothing made just to fill a store.

001AI Content EngineFounding edition£19 / AUGUST
002Field Grade 01A working LUT study for film, city and distanceTESTING
003The IndexThe cameras, kit, software and books that earn their placeBUILDING

THE NEWSLETTER / FORTNIGHTLY

The Chase.

One useful note about the studio, the systems and the life I am trying to build around them.

No daily noise. No borrowed opinions. Leave whenever you like.