In 1994 I made my first film. It was a film about brassbands in Bolivia and it was my graduation film in Visual Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. Specialisation: music and Latin-America. For a year, I wandered around with a brass orchestra in the Andean highlands of Bolivia. I made film recordings and also played along on tuba. It was an experience that is etched in my memory to this day. A fond memory of the rawness of life on the plateau, the bond and friendship between the musicians, the exuberant brass music and the magical world view of the people, who literally and figuratively blew me away.