World-Building
6 min read
Why Science Fiction Needs Anthropology
A future without kinship structures, food culture, or bad habits isn't a future. It's a set.
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Field Notes
A filmmaker's notebook rather than a blog. Notes on craft, world-building, games and the tools that keep changing what independent film can attempt.
- Filmmaking
- Writing
- World-Building
- Technology
- Games
- Film Analysis
- Production
Planned — first entries in progress
Film Analysis
8 min read
Violence Without Consequence Isn't Violence
On the difference between depicting harm and accounting for it, and why the second one is harder to shoot.
Draft
World-Building
7 min read
Building Worlds That Continue Beyond the Frame
Notes on writing institutions, currencies, and grudges that the audience will never be told about.
Draft
Games
5 min read
What Game Design Taught Me About Screenwriting
Systems teach you that players — and characters — will always find the incentive you didn't intend.
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Technology
9 min read
The Future of the Independent Film
Scale used to be a budget problem. Increasingly it's a judgment problem.
Draft