Stories from the field
The Last Places Is Out. And It Is Free.
Three years, four countries, one film. Read why it is free
The Mountain Under My Desk
Under my desk stands a machine, and inside the machine sleeps a film. The machine is a NAS, a black box full of hard drives, and it ticks. I hear it every day, all day, while I work half a meter above it.
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The Button I Didn't Click
There is a version of this story where The Last Places costs 3.99 on Amazon. It very nearly happened. I had spent days inside the upload forms of Filmhub, a distributor that carries independent films onto the big platforms: metadata, artwork, subtitle files, every field filled, every checkbox checked.
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The Night Gotham Came to Angola
The bush in southern Angola does not care what year it is. Thorn trees, red dust, goats with the facial expressions of tax auditors. The land out here is old, patient, and completely uninterested in cinema.
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The Last Places Is Out. And It Is Free.
Three years, four countries, one film. The Last Places is out, finished, released, real. You can watch it right now, right here, in full, for free.
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Two Lessons From the Biggest Failure of My Career
I spent two weeks in a country at civil war, filming interviews that turned out to be completely fabricated. People pointed at the same man in the same photograph and said, that is me. That is me.
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Why I Gave My Film Away
It is true. I am giving away a feature film for free. I think it is a good idea, and by the end of this you might think so too.
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I Thought I Had Made It. Two Years Later I Am Starting Over
I have been getting panic attacks. There are moments where I am hyperventilating because I cannot see a way out of this. I want to say that first, because everything else I am about to write only makes sense if you know that part.
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