Born in a garage in Palo Alto in the late 1930s, Hewlett-Packard didn’t just start in Silicon Valley. They started Silicon Valley.

So when HP approached us to create a campaign highlighting their pioneering work with Mixed and Virtual Reality, we devised a concept that both respects their past, and anticipates their future.

Megan Elliot is partnering with HP Education to build a world-class media program powered by world-class technology—including the HP Omnicept—that empowers the next generation of storytellers.

Jeremy Bailenson uses HP’s VR technology in his groundbreaking research into bias, identity and the human experience.

The international labor rights NGO Mondiaal FNV believes that union membership is key to improving working conditions for women in the garment industry. To get this message out, they brought on Jongsma + O’Neill to create a series of unconventional portraits of female union members in Indonesia.The film The Negotiator, which features union leader Dewi Demayanti, is a fiction-documentary hybrid featuring an improvised script created in collaboration with actual garment workers, and performed by Dewi and her colleagues

America’s west coast entered the 2020’s in free fall. Cost of living soared, and homelessness spiked. Droughts and wildfires ravaged rural communities. Police and activists clashed in the cities. COVID-19 spread unabated.

In the midst of this chaos, the Dutch public broadcaster HUMAN asked us to reflect on our life in California with a short documentary about wildfire season for their award-winning series 2Doc Kort. 

Over the next two years, this commission grew into a highly-personal, three-film series covering climate change, the future of food, and social unrest in our little corner of the USA.

Educational start up Merlyn Mind brings safe, data-secure voice recognition and AI technology into the classroom.

If your eyes glaze over reading that first sentence, you’re not alone. That’s why the Merlyn Mind team brought in Jongsma + O’Neill to emphasize the humanity behind their technology.

The resulting spot—shot during lockdown in Los Angeles and starring Jongsma + O’Neill’s actual daughter’s actual kindergarten teacher—tells the story of an educator’s first day on the job with the Merlyn Mind’s Symphony smart speaker in her corner.

We created and directed two documentary series for the subscription-based Dutch journalism platform De Correspondent:

Minimum Viable Product (MVP) tells the stories of creative technologists who use their skills to craft applications that critique and undermine the goals of Big Tech, and;

3 x Utopia takes a look at a wild collection of amateur astronauts, church security guards, and zombie-obsessed doomsday preppers carving out space for themselves away from mainstream society.

When Siemens and branding agency Virtual Identity asked us to direct a documentary for their /answers campaign, we jumped at the opportunity.

The brief was enticingly slim: create a film that highlights the unexpected ways Siemens’ technology impacts our everyday lives. 

Shot over the course of a week in Mumbai, our documentary The Milky Way profiles the young animal welfare activists behind Animals Matter to Me, who use milk processed with Siemens’ equipment to keep their rescue shelter running.

As the original US Correspondents for VPRO and Hivos’ pioneering TV/online show Metropolis, we directed, produced, shot and edited over 35 short documentaries covering a wide range of subjects including Vietnam War reenactors, volunteer border patrol squads, and pandrogynous rock stars.

Metropolis was streaming TV before streaming TV: each weekly episode brought together clips from documentaries from around the world, commissioned from local correspondents, and organized around a common theme. In addition, VPRO also made each of the correspondents’ uncut films available online, building an impressive international audience.