Human
Technology can multiply images. It cannot decide what matters. Every experiment begins with bodies, perception, emotion and a human reason to act.
人是影像的起点，也是最终要回到的地方。DMS / 2026
Director-led moving-image experiments 以导演实践为核心的影像实验
Worlds are
conditions
for action.
An experimental studio led by action director Zhang Ding, working with architect and designer Naihan Li across film, space, movement and emerging production tools.
由动作导演张顶主导，与建筑师、设计师李鼐含共同开展关于动作、空间与新制作方法的影像实验。
01
Film is our first testing ground.
Not the final boundary.
Studio / 工作室
A director’s practice, enlarged by an architect’s field of questions.
Department of Mammoth Studies is an experimental studio founded by Zhang Ding and Naihan Li. We work through action filmmaking, spatial design, virtual production, 3D and AI-assisted tools to test new conditions for visual storytelling.
Technology is useful because it changes the cost and speed of exploration. It lets a small team test scenes, spaces and physical ideas that would once have required a much larger production. The centre remains human: bodies, choices, emotion, rhythm, danger and consequence.
工作室
这是一个以导演实践为核心的影像实验室。我们从动作、身体与空间出发，借助虚拟制作、三维技术与AI辅助工具，研究当下可以被真正拍出来的故事条件。技术不是主题；人的判断、身体经验与情感，才是。
Practice / 工作方法
Four working conditions.
We do not begin with a tool and search for an image to justify it. The work moves in the other direction.
我们不从工具出发，再为它寻找一个图像理由。工作路径恰好相反。Action
Action is internal life made visible. Movement carries rhythm, discipline, force, instinct, hesitation and response—before it becomes spectacle.
动作不是装饰，而是身体对世界作出的回答。Worldbuilding
A world is not a background. Architecture, material, gravity, scale and atmosphere alter what a body can do and what an action costs.
空间不是容器；它决定行动如何发生。Production
Action-film practice, architecture, Unreal Engine, virtual production and AI-assisted tools form a practical laboratory for testing scenes that are otherwise too costly, too dangerous or too constrained.
AI加持的制作并非捷径；它让那些成本过高、风险过大或受限的想法，获得实现的可能。Current project / 当前项目
In development / 开发中Experiment 001 / 实验001
Variable
Gravity
Combat
1G → 0G
The proposition 核心设问
What happens to action when gravity changes?
The film begins in a familiar 1G world and moves toward 0G. As weight, balance, impact and orientation begin to fail, action must find a new physical language.
Experiment 001 tests whether a human-centred action scenario can remain legible, exciting and emotionally charged while the world beneath it changes its basic rules.
实验001：变重力动作
项目从一倍重力的熟悉环境出发，逐步进入失重状态。当重量、平衡、冲击与方向感失效，身体必须重新学习如何行动。我们关心的不是技术展示，而是动作能否在新的物理条件下，依然清晰、有张力，并让观众真正感到危险与兴奋。
Ask the mammoth to take the chair. 请猛犸入座。
People / 成员
Two disciplines.
One moving field.
The collaboration is deliberately uneven in the useful way: one directs the action; one expands the ground on which it becomes possible.
两种专业，共同进入一个不断变化的场域：一位负责导演动作，一位负责扩展动作得以发生的世界。01
Director / Action Director 导演 / 动作导演
Zhang Ding
张顶
Zhang Ding directs the studio’s film projects and leads their action design.
Trained in martial arts since the age of seven, his knowledge comes from real action-film production: working with performers, directing crews, designing movement and entering the physical conditions of a shot himself. Wires, rigging, timing, impact and the stubborn fact of a body in space are not abstractions to him.
His practice draws on Chinese martial-arts training and Hong Kong action-film traditions, while testing what virtual production, games and AI-assisted image-making can open up for action directing. The point is not to make action easier. It is to take hard-won physical knowledge into less obedient worlds.
自七岁起习武，长期在真实动作电影制作中工作。动作设计、演员训练、片场调度、威亚与高风险拍摄条件，构成了他的实际经验。现在，他把这些经验带入虚拟制作、游戏与AI辅助影像之中：不是让动作变得更轻松，而是让身体经验进入更不讲道理的世界。
02
Architect / Designer / Worldbuilder 建筑师 / 设计师 / 世界构建者
Naihan Li
李鼐含
Naihan Li is an architect by training and an avant-garde designer in practice.
Her work moves between architecture, furniture, art, objects and virtual space. She is interested in what architecture can become once it is released from some of its usual negotiations with gravity, material, budget and planning permission—without becoming visually empty in the process.
In the studio, Naihan develops worlds, visual systems and the larger research field around each project. She does not direct the films. She expands the territory, introduces unreasonable questions, and prevents the experiment from becoming too well-behaved.
建筑师出身，设计师实践者。她的工作穿梭于建筑、家具、艺术、物件与虚拟空间之间。在工作室中，她负责世界构建、视觉系统与研究框架：扩大试验场地，提出不太安分的问题，并确保项目不会过早变得合理。
View Naihan’s work ↗查看李鼐含作品
Contact / 联系
Start with
a message.
For collaborations, research conversations, or a project that may require an unreasonable amount of gravity.
合作、研究交流，或任何需要认真讨论的项目，欢迎写信给我们。