Boomtown Babylon

Boomtown Babylon is an infinite global web project of interconnected one-shot stories from slums and squatter communities in cities around the world.

We spent half March-half April in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, making the pilot. This is the diary that shares our spills and thrills. And when I say "we", I mean myself, producer Lotje Sodderland and the director, French filmmaker and all-round superbot Vincent Moon.

Made possible courtesy of charming executive producer Arnaud Dressen / Honkytonk Films (Paris).

See we fly!

Day Two

We had lemon soda with this cool budding filmmaker kid called Seila who is part of Cambodia’s first creative collective called 4K.

He took us to this crazy old cinema which closed down and got taken over by homeless squatters, recently evicted from one of the city’s inner-city communities. This French-Cambodian team of hipsters was shooting a documentary there, and the scene made us feel a little awkward. So we left again…