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Eleventy-first day here in China! In Tolkien’s Middle-Earth, “eleventy-first” is an important number to the Hobbits, and to me, well, today it means the world; for my wife comes over for a little over a… Read more

It’s been a while since I’ve written, and the reason is simple: she was over here for a little over a week. Now, she’s gone again. She’s actually right now in a plane on the… Read more

Ahh, a day off! I can do anything I want, just kick back and relax and not to worry about the shoot at all, just enjoy the time when there’s absolutely nothing to do. Well,… Read more

Finally, the last shooting day of the ten day straight night shift dawns. The location itself couldn’t be easier for me: it’s just downstairs of my hotel, at a shopping mall, which we have closed… Read more

Mika has coined a great term: nurrumieli – in English something like poutymind. It’s a good description of what happens when things don’t go right and then you feel bad about it. Say, for example,… Read more

Once you get it going, filmmaking can be pretty addictive way to live. Every morning, somebody picks you up, gives you a very tightly-planned schedule of what’s expected for the day, feeds you, gives you… Read more

Finding a single unique visual language to a film is always a tricky business. Whatever you do, everything has been already done before and there’s absolutely nothing you can throw at the audience they haven’t… Read more

Sometimes, filmmaking is like watching a 12-hour-long train wreck. Yesterday way was exactly one of those days. For months, we had been preparing for one of the key scenes of the film, a big motorcycle… Read more

Slowly, the sky turns from black to ultramarine as the light of the approaching dawn fills the set. The crew is running fast and furious, as the last day at the factory location comes to… Read more