Dispatches on craft, weather and light, written between productions, from the valley and above it.
Above 4,000 meters the spectrum misbehaves. How we rebuilt our filtration and grade for the plateau.
Most crews pack up when the rains flood the valley. We took vintage anamorphic glass into Patan at midnight.
Why rehearsed smiles fail to evoke tears ten years later, and what documentary restraint preserves.
