STChM (Stoichemaan) is a director–cinematographer duo and experimental studio whose work joins high-concept cinema, absurdist humour, and AI-assisted image-making.
STChM (Stoichemaan) is a director–cinematographer duo and experimental studio whose work joins high-concept cinema, absurdist humour, and AI-assisted image-making. Their short Everyone Loves Muscles, made with Mercy Films, won Silver at Ciclope in Berlin and is the piece trade press cites as drawing production companies to them. Self-initiated films that define the studio voice include Bon Bon—a short conceived, designed, and executed in two days that sends a fictional 1970s car through twenty-five narrative settings—the graphic product parody Splitcuits, and The Pointy Nose Chronicles. On the brand side they have directed Bialetti’s Mia cara Italia. They describe process as using AI as a film camera: prompting to generate volume, then cutting and authoring with filmmaker craft around light, composition, and tone. Coverage stresses surreal lyricism, graphic clarity, and humour from physical logic underpinned by emotional weight. Sophie Gold of Eleanor has called them technically brilliant and narratively subversive. They signed with Eleanor for the US in November 2025 and Skin and Bones Film in Toronto for Canada in March 2026, and also appear on Loveboat’s roster.
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