​​A sentence moves through time. A frame stops it. Both are cuts---one in language, one in light. Both ask you to inhabit the space between what's said and what's shown.

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I've worked for years in film. Features, commercials and music videos. ​I am making my own films now.​

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I wrote a book about the manosphere. THE MALE SIMULCACRUM: ALGORITHMIC MASCULINITY critiques the fragile, ideological masculinity manufactured by Silicon Valley.

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The territory between the authentic and the simulated, the seen and the said---is the through-line. The rest is craft.

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Lemoine Drake is an Amsterdam-based writer/filmmaker.