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 Thirteen

Unlucky for some so they say, but guess we lucked out! A splendid day of static shooting, and lining up the next shots in our dust-addled minds for the stories we plan to record in the coming days.

We’re off to Peace City II tomorrow break’o’dawn for a few days of intensive, immersive expeditionry of the *deep inside* school (FYI we’ll be offline - searched in a 10-km radius for internet there today, but alas, “no have”).

Back before you know it with tales from within!

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