I’m still awake. In a few hours from now, I will be awake for more at least more than 24 hours already. I don’t really know for sure how many hours. That’s exactly what happens when you can’t sleep: you think you can think, but no, you don’t think. You just can’t. And believe it […]

Williams Alfarouk from Sierra Leone has just spammed me an email. He said that he’s writing me from Rep of Cote d’Ivoire where he has been taking refuge after the brutal war and Murder of his parents by the rebels during the renewed Fighting in his country Sierra Leone. I think he’s offering me something […]

Maybe this is not jetlag. Maybe it’s just my childhood coming back to me. I should try to count all the stars. But I counted them all already, and I still couldn’t sleep. My parents, when I was a child, told me I was like Dennis the Menace. I think it’s because I share so […]

By bus, Paris was surprising. Take this: This is where Napoleon was buried, Nita told me. She was sitting in front of me, facing me. I looked out the window; I saw a mausoleum-like square building, quite a nice one, with like three big black balls on the top, some golden chain around them. I […]

Test, one, two, three. This is much easier typed than said. I lost my voice after talking too much about my work. Amsterdam, Groningen, Eindhoven, you name it. So today is a reflection day. I only do test, one, two, three, every now and then. And spitting yellow phlegm out of my lung, before inhaling […]

Yeah, Clermont-Ferrand was inspiring. With an average of 120,000 audience each year, being with Cannes etc in the top list of film festivals with the most audience in the whole world, how can it be not? There’s no 1 director, just a board of 10 programmers. And they do everything, from delivering cables to screenings, […]