Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan has mountains, open grassland, horses and very few tourists. We travelled there with a small group and filmed all of it.

Tourism films tend to be drone shots over slow piano. They show what a place looks like and very little of what it is like to be there.

The film opens with someone asking where we are and never stops to explain. It moves the way the trip did: a swim in the dark, a horse, a dirt bike, a flock of sheep blocking the road.

The landscape is in every shot, but it is always behind someone doing something. That is what makes you want to go.

It runs for thirty-six seconds and rarely holds a shot for more than a moment. Handheld footage sits next to big landscape frames, which keeps it feeling like a trip.

The name of the country arrives early, in block capitals, and the film ends on a canyon at sunset.