The Drift

“Living in a van represented a new, glamorous ideal, unburdened from homeownership and a steady job — unmoored, even, from the physical world itself. If owning a home was no longer possible, there was endless space on Instagram.”

On “colonial nostalgia and Nairobi’s Out of Africa industry.”

“From the emergence of the form, documentaries have sought out and fictionalized the most extreme points of contact between ‘humanity’ and ‘the wild,’ not only reflecting back but actively promoting a set of myths that license oppression, extractivism, mass eviction; the histories of documentary, exploitation, and wilderness conservation are darkly intertwined.”