It’s finally up. My YouTube channel, Documentary by Christopher, is alive and well. It’s happening.

On my YouTube channel you will find many of the films featured on our website along with new films from myself and perhaps along the way, a few films from guest filmmakers.

I encourage all your comments and thoughts on the films. I reply to as many comments as possible, as we consider questions both practical and philosophical, political and personal—and together, we enter the place where all of our concerns meet, the endless, boundless, world of motion pictures.

Here is the list of the very first films I put up on my channel:

And this is the entire four-film series The Valley and the Lake. Check out the films and leave a comment. Thank you!

This is an invitation for you the viewer to begin a cinematic journey with me. We will explore the films I have directed and co-directed. We will consider how films are made, what lessons I have learned, and what tips I can offer. We will visit the work of other filmmakers and artists—and we will discuss the very nature of filmmaking itself.

Along the way I will share an occasional personal story, among them my twenty years living on a boat in Sausalito, California.

With good fortune, these words and pictures will provide a pathway to future films that I hope to make, and films that you the visitor will make and you as a viewer will watch with a careful and clear-eyed appreciation.

You are invited to participate, to send comments and offer suggestions about topics to cover and subjects dear to your hearts. All are welcome. No one is excluded.

And now the journey begins!