Holiday In a Warzone: Namibia

This film is a personal reflection on a journey through northern Namibia — a place that, for many, is now associated with travel, wilderness, and holiday. For me, it also carries older memories. In the video, I talk about an operational deployment to a combat zone during Operation Protea, and how experiences from that time continue to surface unexpectedly, years later, while moving through the same landscapes in very different circumstances. The film isn’t a history lesson, and it isn’t an attempt to explain a war. It’s about memory, contrast, and the uneasy coexistence of ordinary life and past violence — how places change, and how sometimes they don’t. Sound plays a central role in the storytelling. Much of what you hear is recorded in the moment: vehicle movement, wind, distant ambiences. The roughness in places is intentional — part of the texture of being there. This is a quiet film, meant to be watched and listened to rather than rushed. Subtitles are available.