All the Time in the World

All The Time in the World is a highly personal documentary that tracks the journey of my family in search of a new perspective. For nine months we reduced our lives to primary needs–heat, shelter, food, water–following a rhythm dictated by the seasons as opposed to a clock.

I didn’t have a crew. I filmed my family with a single camera and sought to capture an intimate view of the natural course of our life. All the off-screen voices were recorded during and after the experience. There was no written narrative and nothing was planned. We were in a remote place without road access or space for a helicopter pad, so we had to manage everything by ourselves. We were living completely outside the web: no electricity, no running water, no internet.

One of the biggest challenges for me was the thin line I had to follow between giving an account of something I was living first-hand and my job as director, director of photography and sound mixer. Especially since the motivation for the adventure was to learn to be present in a situation in which what was fundamental was reconnecting as a family with our natural environment. It was important to stay faithful to this goal without being distracted by the idea of shooting a documentary. The film isn’t about survival in the wild but about the search for a range of possibilities in the fabric of our lives–a reflection on the possible choices that we have to make with respect to the time we have at our disposal on this Earth.