ABOUT THE AUTHOR
I'm originally from New Zealand, and started in film and video making music videos (a real love of mine) while paying the rent with soul-destroying television jobs. Since
I'm originally from New Zealand, and started in film and video making music videos (a real love of mine) while paying the rent with soul-destroying television jobs.
Since moving to Berlin almost 3 years ago, I've left the sausage-factory production line of television and pursued my own interests.
I now work with a documentary group called Wrangelfilm. We're a bunch of young international filmmakers who have fallen together over a couple of years of collaboration, and we'll be working together throughout my Year of Open Source project. Our films are about such diverse subjects as the meaning of home here in Berlin, electoral corruption in Uganda, or the flow of traditional music in eastern Europe.
But the focus is on finding interesting characters along the way, And I'm sure to find plenty this year.
This year, I'm sharing everything. I'm sharing the results of my experiments, documenting my triumphs and failures, and helping others to follow in my wobbly footsteps, as I attempt to only use open source options for ALL aspects of my life, from flip-flops to furniture.
