Two halls and a cage in an old works in Ciocana
The building on str. Uzinelor made measuring instruments until 1994. We took the top two floors of the east wing in 2019 and kept the windows.
Hall A
The big room. Five windows on the north-west wall, each 4.2 metres tall, give soft light most of the day and a long low sun from mid-afternoon in autumn and winter. The cyclorama is nine metres wide and seven deep, painted white and refreshed after every hire that marks it.
There is a kitchen for the crew behind the cyclorama, a client room with a monitor fed from the camera, and a goods lift that takes a car if the car is small and the client is patient.
- Floor
- 212 m²
- Height
- 6.4 m to the trusses
- Cyclorama
- 9 × 7 m, white
- Power
- 63 A three-phase, four distro points
- Blackout
- Motorised blinds on all windows
- Rigging
- Two lighting rails, 1.5 t safe load
Hall B
Smaller and brighter, under a long north skylight, so the light barely moves from ten till four. Knitwear, ceramics, portraits. Name the paper colour when you book and it will be down and taped before you arrive.
- Floor
- 86 m²
- Height
- 4.1 m
- Papers
- 11 colours, 2.72 m
- Power
- 32 A
Rates for 2026, in lei
Prices exclude 20% VAT. A day is ten hours including setup and strike. Overtime after the tenth hour is charged at the hourly rate plus half.
| Room | Per hour | Day | Minimum |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hall A | 1,450 MDL | 11,800 MDL | 4 hours |
| Hall B | 690 MDL | 5,400 MDL | 4 hours |
| Grading room | Half day 3,900 MDL | 7,200 MDL | Half day |
| Recce, in Chișinău | n/a | 4,300 MDL | One day, with file |
The cage downstairs
Everything in the cage is ours, tested after every job and logged in a book that sits on the cart. It comes with the halls at no charge for the first two items and at a day rate after that, or with our crew on any planned shoot.
- Tungsten
- Fresnels from 300 W to 5 kW
- LED
- Six bi-colour panels, two 1200 W points
- Modifiers
- Softboxes, a 12×12 frame, silks and solids
- Grip
- 21 C-stands, sandbags, a 6 m dolly track
- Camera
- Cinema body, primes 18 to 135 mm
- Stills
- Medium format, tethered capture station
- Power
- Silent generator for location
Come and see the light before you book.
A walk-through of both halls takes twenty minutes. Afternoons in October and November show Hall A at its best.