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Tim Love is a London-based filmmaker and founder of a film studio specialising in creating impactful, story-driven films.
Jun 3, 2025
ShareFounder of London based creative studio CFH London, Tim Love has been telling stories through film since 2017. A Television Centre resident, Tim chose the area for its variety: the parks; the proximity to the river; the transport links that allow him to travel with ease as his job demands. For Tim, West London represents a departure from other louder pockets of expression in the capital; a place where creative giants continue to work quietly, focusing on their craft.
While his studio focuses on bringing brands to life through film (clients span brands from AMAN to Moët & Chandon), in his personal work, Tim champions a simplistic style that lets the story unfold organically. Inspired by walking, observing his environments from the light to the people, he explores his surroundings to fuel his creative process.
For this brief, he responded to the food and drink destinations at Television Centre, creating a narrative that shifts from day to night, the obvious and the abstract. Uncovering the interactions that each of these locations has with the space they exist in, the film captures Television Centre’s relationship between its history and heritage and ever-evolving output today. Homing in on the architecture of the grade-II listed building, he shaped the final video around the spirit of evolution present at Television Centre, both figuratively through its different guises over the decades, and literally in how it’s viewed in different lights and weather conditions.
“We make films for brands, telling stories and bringing to life ideas, products, and visions through the simple yet profound medium of film.”
What inspires your work?
“This is going to sound weird, but I get really inspired through walking. Walking around, looking at anything from color to light to visual merchandising in shop windows – I find that really inspiring. Seeing other people’s work, and just noting simple ideas down in a notepad or my phone’s notes. When I’m stuck, I’ll take 15 minutes to have a walk, and that’s what’s so nice about Television Centre; you can walk to so many places. You can walk down to the river within five or ten minutes through Hammersmith, or go through the Japanese Peace Garden and come back with an idea.”
How long have you lived at Television Centre, and why did you choose to live there?
“This is actually the longest place I’ve lived in London. It’s sort of a bit of an epicenter for me. A lot of friends live in West London, and it’s super quick to get out of London and to the airport. You can be at Heathrow in half an hour. I’ve never missed a flight, which is great, and my parents are this side of London. It is super nice to be able to just quietly disappear outside sometimes because London is so manic.”
Can you tell us about your brief for this film and what you aimed to create?
“The brief was to bring Television Centre to life through film. And I think that’s something super nice to be able to work with. It’s super simple for me. It’s about seeing the light, waking up in the morning. The building, the architecture, and the curvature—the light always hits in a different spot from the sun through the cloud. And that’s just super nice to see. It’s quite an inspiring building to live in and work out of.”
What aspects of Television Centre and White City inspired your piece?
“With Television Centre, it’s about history, but a modern take on it, and that’s been told beautifully through the curation of the space. You’ve got Soho House, but then outside you’ve got QPR. Some of the greatest shows have been conceived and made here in this building, and I think that’s incredible. Now you’ve got moments like Apple recording a television commercial for the iPod here. And when I walk outside, I walk past incredible producers just sat there having coffee, whose work I’ve respected for years. I think that’s super special; you don’t have that anywhere else.”
What does your creative process look like for this project?
“With making the film, we wanted to keep it really simple and just capture the space. See movement within it and not really overcomplicate it in that sense. It’s about bringing to life the spaces within Television Centre that make it so special. With any of our projects, we just want to keep it simple. We wanted to be inspired by the architecture, inspired by the seasonality of the building and how it changes, and also play into the weather a little bit.”
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