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 Eight

The girls delivered super little clips from inside their lives. We left one camera with the posse to circulate in The Building, and we’ll go swap SD cards tomorrow night to see what new treasures await…

Tomorrow morning we head to *Peace City*, the aforementioned dusty and desolate artificial neighbourhood an hour’s drive from Phnom Penh where evictees from the inner-city bulldozed communities are offered new homes. We’ll go with Thyneon the tuk-tuk driver who took us there last week and introduced us to his family, see what seeds we can plant for the next trajectory.

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