In 2007, I departed Vancouver to explore Indonesia with an HD camera, teaching English in Jakarta to survive. I've cut the 16 hours of footage down to 4 minutes, to catch the attention of people - interested in Asia, sea turtles, travel, musical montages, poetic documentary (like Baraka, Koyaanisqatasi...) or hopefully interested in my abilities as a film maker...
I loosely focused my efforts on critically endangered sea turtles, seeing a possible use for an 'edutaining' nature documentary on them, and am still searching for that niche. On shorter holidays, I took suggestions from locals, & booked it out of the city on plane, motorcycle, train, bus...to capture video using local knowledge of the exotic & mysterious places in the country, some of which are featured here...The video, much like the year and a half I spent making it, seems to flash before your eyes.
Musical content by Sigur Ros.
