We’ve been advancing the line every year, with this anniversary series. Purely symptomatic of our own expanding reach and vision, mind, and each round has been an adventure and an education and a relief and a triumph, all at once.

This is the first year where we didn’t try to tell a story, and where we fully abandoned the hey-I-wrote-you-a-letter format. I think I literally asked Orion, “hey, can you just interview us? and make something from that?” The format suggested itself: in a life season of huge creative pushes and personal evolution, it felt more in keeping with the flow to ask our creative partners to take a snapshot of what was already here, using the tools they know best. The overall approach of the film snapped into focus immediately, with no effort: an understated interview, cut together with almost overstated slow-mo portraits, juxtaposing the casual and the profound, in the way our life does. We’re moving between modes constantly, the shallows and the depths, and documenting that motion in situ felt right, and easy. Gratitude to Orion and Chuy and Alicia for making this with us. <3