About Us
Monolith is a video production studio based in Cleveland, Ohio.
Driven by passion
We’re not interested in making video just to fill out an algorithm. Most of the projects we take on are about helping brands and organizations feel confident and proud of how they show up visually.
Our work spans brand films, corporate storytelling, documentary projects, and original creative pieces. The format changes. The approach stays the same. Taste matters. Pacing matters. Execution matters.
Monolith is led by Matt and Zenen.
Matt spent years working in Los Angeles across sports and entertainment, from ESPN productions to large-scale commercial and film environments. That background shapes how we plan, how we shoot, and how we finish work. The work has been recognized at a national level, including an Emmy nomination.
Zenen built his name in Ohio through music videos, becoming a trusted creative voice in that space. In recent years, his focus has expanded into directing and storytelling beyond music, carrying the same instincts into brand and narrative projects.
We keep teams lean. We stay hands-on. We’re involved from first conversation through final delivery.
Good work doesn’t need much explaining. It just needs to hold up.
THE MONOLITH
The name and symbol are drawn from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. In the film, the monolith represents an unknown catalyst for human evolution. Something alien not because it’s artificial, but because it’s unfamiliar. Deliberate. Placed with intention.
That idea stuck with us.
In an age increasingly shaped by automation and shortcuts, we’re interested in work that still feels authored. Human decisions. Human judgment. Craft that comes from taste rather than convenience.
To us, the monolith is a marker of real creation. Something made carefully. Something that doesn’t need to explain itself to be felt.