The Grand Tour Préhistorique is now fully underway, and it could not have started any better. I have made contact with no fewer than two museums, and moreover I was able to film at an active Paleolithic excavation and at a gathering of experts in the field of flint knapping. But above all, I have caught the travel bug.
It's high time for a project update. No, you haven't missed any yet; I simply didn't get around to it because I was finishing my Master's in Applied Ethics. A thesis inevitably eats up a lot of your time, soul, and energy, so I couldn't find the space to share the project's progress here. But progress has definitely been made!...
The filming was done, and the editing had begun—a puzzle of roughly 300 gigabytes. It was wonderful to see all the work from the past 1.5 years come together. Once the rough cut was finished, I had planned a long trip through America to let the film rest for a while. After that, I would work with an editor to...
The main filming days were almost a full week of adventure, each day presenting its own challenges. After the experiences from the standalone filming day with the bison, we were all well-coordinated, and it seemed like it was just a matter of executing the plan and hoping for good weather...
In the run-up to the first, standalone shooting day, I was busy with preparations every day for three weeks. I've rarely been so busy, but I've also rarely been so happy. Because the film was really going to happen!! Looking back on those weeks, I'm sure that filmmaking is for me, as I bore the pressure on my shoulders with...
Prehistory has always been a source of fascination for me. History books at school wrote about it in such a mysterious way, as if it were a lost time about which we know so little. Moreover, it was strange how this period lasted for hundreds of thousands of years but received only a few pages in a history book that...