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Sound design is a central pillar of our productions. We've even built Signalforge, a synth made for our own films.
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The Panopticon
Der Kern, 2026. A documentary about surveillance and the people who own it. Researched, written, shot, built, cut and scored here.
Work
Documentary, animation and 3D for newsrooms, YouTube channels and brands.
Hong Kong’s War for Democracy
A short documentary on Hong Kong’s protests. Johnny HarrisWatchThe Truth About
Area 51
Seeing and Understanding Area 51 with our own eyes.
The New York Times OpinionWatch
Liberal
Hypocrisy
A deep dive into American NIMBYism.
Der KernWatch
The Lie That Built
the Internet
A documentary on the Internet’s biggest lie.
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Tell us what you want to build.Cutting edge visuals and storytelling. Pushing the limits of the expected.
Anarctic Studios is led by Parjanya Christian Holtz, a journalist, producer, director, editor and animator who spent six years as senior video producer at Newpress, working directly with Johnny Harris.
He reported on Hong Kong’s protests, Germany’s far right and Cuba’s dissidents for The Washington Post. And produced, edited and animated a series of award-winning short docs for The New York Times.
Our productions have won two Emmy Awards and were nominated for a third.
We research, write, shoot, animate in 2D and 3D, edit and even create our own sounds and music.
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