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Place is a feeling.

Living Films breathe real life into static assets and grow with you as you build.

Two people laughing together on a waterfront walkway beside new apartment blocks

It starts off static.

Every development starts with static imagery made for approval.

A living film makes it so real, a person can see themselves there.

We take what you have and put it to film: sunlight, laughter, sound, and a human heartbeat.

Glass Bottle as a Living Film: residents cycling a waterfront path at golden hour below the new apartment blocksThe same Glass Bottle view as a planning CGI render in flat daylight
A couple cooking together at the kitchen island of a bright apartment

Then your vision keeps growing.

A human cast is set, and plays their role as your project expands.

No more worrying how to recreate that special moment. We bring back the same faces whenever the site needs them.

01

The files

Renders, CGI, game engine stills, drone stills, photography: whatever already exists.

02

The cast

Carefully chosen and kept, so the humans in your first film are still there in the fifth.

03

The library

Every film you have made, ready to be cut again for the next campaign.

James Dubec, Executive Producer at ListLift
As a producer, I have spent decades bringing feeling to international brands. Now technology allows us to bring that same feeling to any property. Living films that connect people to a space before they ever step inside.

James Dubec

Executive Producer, ListLift

We're building something that didn't exist.

A building is a promise made to the people who will occupy it. Technology has finally made it possible to feel a place long before foundations are poured.

Anyone buying or investing deserves to feel a place before they stand in it, and that belief is the whole of ListLift.

We're filmmakers. We bring light and people into your vision, and keep them there as you keep building.

Three ways to begin.

Whichever one you start with, everything ends up full of life.

Planted balconies on a residential building in warm evening light

Launch Film

Your development, alive before it exists.

Launch Films
Residents on a rooftop terrace at Sand House, Dublin, at golden hour

Hero Film

Your finished place, with life inside.

Hero Films

Before you ask.

What is a living film?

A film that carries on. We write and direct your renders or photography into something photoreal with people in it, then keep the cast and setting on file, so every film after it picks up in the same place.

Do the same people appear in our later films?

Yes. We can recast the same faces years later, which no crew can promise once someone has moved away.

What happens when the design changes?

Send us the new drawings. We rebuild what moved and leave everything else exactly where it is.

Does this work if our building is finished?

Yes. A Hero Film from your own photography is a living film. A new wing or a new season fits straight in.

Will it look like AI?

Real enough that the law makes us label it. We handle the EU AI Act notice, so it's off your desk.

Let's bring it to life.

Tell us about the place and how it needs to feel. We'll come back with a plan.