The film company was technically started in 2012 with the creation of the short film Shoes, directed and produced by Konstantin Fam. Shoes tells the history of the Holocaust through the story of a pair of women's shoes. The film's festival success propelled its evolution into a feature film Witnesses. To create the film, Konstantin Fam and Egor Odintsov established Ark Pictures LLC in 2014.
The feature narrative film Witnesses became the new company's first official project. The film is itself a trilogy, comprised of three short films: Shoes, Brutus, and Violin. Each of those films had its own festival journey and was submitted for the Academy Awards in the Short Film category. The feature trilogy Witnesses was released in theaters in 2018 and is available for online screening.