The Modern Filmmaker

The Modern Filmmaker

In filmmaking, this is what failure looks like...

A personal essay on eight years of failure, fatherhood at midnight, and why the pain that breaks you can also be the pain that changes everything.

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Nov 18, 2025
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From a dimly lit nursery, rocking my son while he sleeps.

Monday, November 17th

MP Rekola Desk of Image. Filmmaker.

Dear Reader,

Eight years in, and I still feel like an abject failure.

Eight years of toil and nothing to show for it.

Eigh…

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