We received a phone call from David Veldman, a professional videographer, at New Year 2021.  He proposed to make a documentary of our daily life at the Hermitage.  Generally, monks jealously protect their hiddenness.  Yet, documentaries about the ‘inside’, daily-life of a monastery are not uncommon, and neither were we opposed to the idea of such a project.  Our main concern was that the final project would transmit the sense of peace, silence, emptiness – all aspects that exist in the daily life of a monastery, and not something easy to transmit in photo and video.  After having him visit, and looking at his other work, by which we were quite impressed, we were confident that David understood ‘quiet’ and ‘silence’ in his work. We said yes to his project.  David filmed for three days at the end of January and beginning of February 2021, exactly when a big snow storm hit providing excellent vistas. 
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David has called the full length documentary “Goosechase”, and was a finalist in the 2021 Lunenburg Doc Festival.  See David's other work at his personal website.