Location Dingy hotel room. No AC, no lock, bedbugs, gotta move. |
Mood Winding slowly into second gear |
Date 7 August 2006
Crude Team with taxi
Have assembled a crack team with miraculous speed:
Ra'fat (Palestinian), fixer. Well connected & persuasive.
Location On floor of Miami airport |
Mood Almost hyperventilating with emotion |
Date 16 June 2006
9 months after Katrina hit
Location Four poster bed again |
Mood Hyperventilating |
Date 13 June 2006
Filming Al on the flattened site of his old house.
Photograph: Chris Graythen
Location Four poster bed again |
Mood Worried |
Date 10 June 2006
Location At the Avid at the office |
Mood Angry with self |
Date 18 May 2006
Twenty lovely coca-cola (I know, I know) fuelled hours logging French, Cornish and Nigerian tapes interspersed with lavish emails to Israel detailing all my great shots and general genius filmmaker-ness.
Then came across key scene in Nigeria - where Layefa gets a tour through the destroyed village of Odiama - and there was dirt on the lens throughout. Usually I'm good at spotting that kind of thing, but ... well, can't think of any excuse. I fucked up.
Location Eurostar back from Paris |
Mood Lovestruck |
Date 13 May 2006
The predicted thunderstorms duly arrived and wiped out our helicopter plans. But managed to get some good shots of skiers trying to ski across a wee lake thing - till a snowboarder crashed right next to me and sent half a lake of icy water right over camera and me.
Location Hotel room in Warri |
Mood Really tired |
Date 19 April 2006
Cold, hard custard and dry white bread for breakfast anyone? The plaintain is lovely.
Location In chief's bed in village in heart of trouble area |
Mood Surprisingly calm and clear-headed |
Date 16 April 2006
Found our fourth Crude character yesterday. She is Layefa Malemi , a 22-year-old who has been fishing all day every day for the last two years to save up enough money to go to medical school so she can become a doctor and work in her village. She is quiet, calm, intelligent and funny. Absolutely perfect.
Location In bed with Lizzie in hotel in Warri, Niger Delta. Not good idea to have separate rooms and the cockroaches have put her off another night on the floor. |
Mood Angry |
Date 16 April 2006
No weapons here
Location Secret hut up mountain |
Mood Ecstatic |
Date 6 March 2006
Mountain Picnic with Fernand
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