ABOUT
Engineered to Take
the Whole Job
What is Geared Like A Machine
Geared Like A Machine is a Dallas-Fort Worth production company. Production, equipment rentals, and the software that runs both. One company, one operating system, nothing handed off.
THE MACHINE
PRODUCTION
Script to screen without a handoff. We scope the job, build the crew it actually needs instead of the crew a template says, shoot on gear we own, and run post in-house through edit, color, sound, and graphics. Nothing sits waiting on a vendor who has your footage but not your deadline.
- Commercial
- Documentary
- Brand film
- Short-form
- Full post: edit, color, sound, graphics
RENTALS
We own the package we shoot on, which is why GLM can arrive as crew and equipment at once. The same inventory rents on its own, with real photos, real specs, and a live itemized estimate before you commit.
- Cinema cameras
- Lenses
- Lighting
- Grip
- Drones
- Monitoring
- Audio
- Curated packages
- Dallas-Fort Worth
SOFTWARE
Four Apps on
the App Store
Production companies do not usually ship software. GLM does, because the problems worth fixing kept showing up on our own jobs: call sheets nobody confirmed, sun in the wrong place at four in the afternoon, a gear quote that takes a week to come back, a client asking which half of the spend actually worked. All four are public, built in-house, and in use on real productions.
American Cinematographer and British Cinematographer both covered CallSheet in August 2026, weeks after it shipped.
Behind them sits the estimating and scoping system GLM runs on internally, built on the record of what past jobs actually cost.
THE RECORD
THE OWNER
Joey Arcisz
I own Geared Like A Machine. I shoot national and global commercial work out of Dallas-Fort Worth, and GLM owns the camera, lighting, and grip package those productions are shot on.
What a client buys is not coverage. It is judgment: knowing what is about to happen, where to put the camera, and what goes wrong before it does.
I went from riding for a wakeboard brand to shooting for global ones. CWB named me to its national wakeboard team at fifteen, and a year later to its professional roster. I competed at the world championships and rode the Pro Wakeboard Tour for Nautique and CWB. In 2012 I released Momentum, a full-length wakeboarding film I produced, directed, and edited across Texas, California, and the Philippines.
Tige Boats hired us directly for the walkthrough films of both 2026 flagships, the Ultre ZX and the Z3. I directed, shot, and edited both. The Z3 film took five Telly Awards, including Gold for Cinematography. In 2014 the American Advertising Awards credited me six times in one show, including Best of Show for Broadcast.
The problems that repeat on our jobs became software. Through Production Engine I build tools for working crews. Four are on the App Store: CallSheet, GLM Rentals, DP Career Coach, and SignalRig, which measures what media spend actually moved. American Cinematographer and British Cinematographer both covered CallSheet in 2026.
THE RANGE
A national commercial, a brand film, and an event stage each break in a different place. GLM has worked all of them, which is why a scope from us is built around what goes wrong on your kind of day.
BACKGROUND
GLM is not the first production company that Dallas cinematographer Joey Arcisz has built, and the years in between went to other people’s productions, for agencies, networks, and brands, in nearly every seat on a crew.
This one is built with all of that known in advance. Crew, equipment, and software in one company, instead of three vendors each holding a piece of the same job.
Put Us to Work
Tell us what you are shooting. Within one business day you get real questions, a rough cost band, or a straight no if we are the wrong fit.