What follows is not a production record in the conventional sense. I could have written these weeks in a neat, professional manner—bullet points, call sheets, and to-do lists—but that would betray the spirit of the project itself. Sanctuary is a story of shadows, of the strange, of things found rather than made. It felt only right that the record of its creation should mirror that spirit.
Thus, this journal is written as though it, too, were discovered. Its pages are meant to carry a certain unease, as if the words were left behind by someone struggling to capture the indescribable. Sketches, strange reflections, and rambling notes may appear throughout, their form bending somewhere between process and confession.
This way of writing allows me not only to document my work week by week, but also to inhabit the atmosphere of the film as I make it. The project bleeds into the record, and the record, in turn, becomes another part of the story.
If it feels a little unsettling to read, then it is serving its purpose.
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