With Hanoi’s economy booming, its residents find themselves with cash to spare. One of the first things they’re doing is customising their motos with colour, decals & seat covers from Louis Vuitton to Hello Kitty.
This is the first film I directed, shot and edited. Up to this point, I’d been exclusively editing. I was interested in making a film where I started with a completely blank canvas. This was also around the time that DSLRs started being able to produce reasonable video, and I wanted to know if you could make a decent film with them (you can, but they couldn’t compete with higher end cameras).
The story emerged from four weeks of walking the streets of Hanoi with a Canon 5DII and a backpack of gear.