THE THINGS I DO
I’m making a web documentary called Boomtown Babylon with Vincent Moon and Honkytonk Films, a second called Doctor/Dealer with Submarine Channel, and a feature doc called Your I.D Please! with Mr. Isaac Niemand and SMARTHOUSE.
I also produce digital content for Mother London and Submarine in Amsterdam, IDFA DocLab, SubmarineChannel, and SBS Australia.
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THE OTHER DAY
We made a teaser for Your I.D Please! – and when I say “we”, I mean the dangerously charming and exceptionally talented DoP Mr. Isaac Niemand, the superhuman megabot Geoffrey Lillemon and myself. Shooting starts in London, July 2011. Meanwhile, here’s a tease:
Your I.D Please! is a feature documentary that weaves together four frontline, character-driven stories to explore how the uniform can be an expression of human belonging, or of being made to belong.
Divided into four inter-connected vignettes – Love, Fear, Subversion, and Conformity – Your I.D Please! is an image-driven, series of inter-connected character portraits which explore uniform as a visual language that expresses the struggle for human identity. Reflected in the narrative, we see the bigger story of how human beings understand themselves in our post-millenial world, inviting the audience to consider their own place in the story.
A WHILE AGO
Champagne Valentine made this beautiful teaser for Boomtown Babylon, a multi-authored interactive documentary about the contrasts and parallels of our newly urban civilization.
As the global urban population expands at a rate of 3 million people per week, we have reached a critical moment in human history when, for the first time, more than half the world’s people live in cities; a chaotic world of rapid change, fraught with ecological, financial and spiritual crises that many see as a time-bomb about to explode.
Boomtown Babylon tells the story of conflicting urban communities where the wealthy few and the poor masses are beginning to inhabit entirely separate worlds – but at the same time are increasingly confronted with each other. How does this global drama play out on street level for people on both ends of the social spectrum?
Shot by ten filmmakers from around the world whose stories crisscross and interconnect, Boomtown Babylon invites web users to embark on a singular ride from dawn until dusk in today’s new urban communities, to explore the contrasts and parallels of life both within, and between, 10 of the world’s most divided, dynamic, and explosive cities.
During March and April 2010 Vincent Moon and me shot the pilot for Boomtown Babylon in a dusty outpost of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. We discovered a displaced community of former slum-dwellers, traumatized and helpless after a violent, midnight eviction which saw them forcibly removed from their own land in the city centre, and abandoned in a peripheral wasteland at a half-built relocation site called Peace City 2. Some stills a production blog, should you have the time/inclination:
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