Past of Now

Modern tools are collapsing the distance between then and now.
Archival photos can move. Ancestors can speak.
Forgotten stories can find new audiences they were always meant for.

Today's most powerful tools, pointed at yesterday's richest material. A creative lab. A virtual research table covered in old photographs, stories, and archival books... and a world of new possibilities.

Harriet Martineau, sketch

Areas where the past and the present are calling out to each other, and where today's tools can finally answer.

Bringing the Past to Life

Moving images, moving stories
Archival Regenerative Historical Filmmaking

Animating archival photos into cinematic short films. Period pieces using AI. Think Ken Burns meets Downton Abbey, without the costume budget.

Ancestor Stories

Historical photos and archival records become cinematic pieces where your ancestors perform in their own life stories.

Mining the Archives

What's been overlooked, undervalued, forgotten
Health and Wellness Gems

Using the latest technology to surface and rediscover overlooked wellness knowledge buried in public domain archives. Practices, remedies, and wisdom that modern tools can now find, organize, and bring to new audiences.

Archival Regeneration

AI-powered research across millions of historical records, newspapers, and archives to find transformation stories at a scale that was never possible before.

Preserving and Sharing

Before the stories disappear
Genealogical Audiobooks

Public domain genealogical and historical texts transformed into narrated audiobooks using AI voice. Source material that's been waiting for a voice.

AI Storytelling Companion

Life story collection through AI-assisted conversation with the elderly. Turning oral histories into preserved, shareable narratives.

Flossie and John Riley, 1900
Proof of
Concept

Our first exploration: the story of Flossie and John Riley and the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1900, one of the most dramatic chapters in American frontier history.

Using archival photographs, historical records, and the latest tech filmmaking tools, we're bringing their story to life as a cinematic short. The real people of history, performing in their own story for the first time.

We'd love to collaborate.

Filmmakers, archivists, genealogists, historians, technologists, storytellers, and anyone who believes we can see so much more of the past in the present.

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