the trailer was beautifully intriguing. "30 Century Man" was a story about James Bowthorpe who'd just broken the world record for cycling around the world. He and I decided to try and make a sequel to it and asked Rapha if they wanted to help us. We were both going to be in Japan with other work and decided to do it there. Mogwai very kindly gave us the score. I wanted to find someone that, like James, had done an amazing thing in an understated way. And I think we found him with Nao the boxer. James wrote a story using myths and metaphors and we found some animators that helped us tell it. Where do you look for creative inspiration? Mainly real life and the people around me. I go to a lot of art galleries too. I go through periods of not looking at what other people are making in film and photography, and I don't have a TV. Are you working on anything at the moment that we should be keeping an eye out for? The Hudson River Project is another project with James, but feature length. He's coming to New York to make a rowing boat and oars out of things that he finds on the streets of Manhattan. Then he's going go to tow it by bike to the start of the river high in the Adirondack Mountains near Canada and then row it back to city. A small crew and I will be