I'm a fucking genius

That's what my character keeps saying in the film I just shot at Off Courts.

It's also what several friends told me after the screening. A triumph.

The secret? I gave it away in this video several days before the shoot. At that point, I had no idea what I was going to do. I was lost.

And I decided that was fine. That I was going to let go completely.

I wouldn't worry about the result, or about anything. I'd let it come.

It's a way of working I've already brought into several parts of my life, and into an earlier film in particular, but never this far.

I'm not aiming at anything anymore. I'm not controlling anything. I'll make the film events push me to make, and that will be fine.

Then, on the morning of the session I was due to shoot in, I met my guardian angels.

I didn't go looking for them. They sat down next to me and offered to help.

And they're the ones who made the film.

Without them, nothing would have happened.

If I had chosen to "take charge", to "put a team together" and to "find the right people" in order to "do what I had in mind", I wouldn't have pulled off a quarter of what we did together.

Of course, I "directed". The story comes in part from me.

But I could never have expressed myself like that without being surrounded by that efficiency and that kindness. And that, I didn't choose. I had nothing to do with it.

So yes, I made a film, sort of. But actually, no. It made itself.

My only job was to let it happen.

Watch the film here.