Recent progress

On this page, I provide brief updates about where the project stands. Also, I keep the visitors to this site updated about where I am travelling, in case people are interested in setting up a meeting. 

June/July 2026

I returned home and started doing temporary work, saving up enough money for a trip to the UK and a van. In the UK, from mid-July onwards, I will look for actors, visit sites like Gough's Cave and Creswell Craigs and explore shooting locations. I will work at farms along the way and start online work (I will make logistical models for a small company). 

Experimental archaeologist Markus Klek has agreed to become head of artefact production for the film. During the coming months, he will research the material culture of the Magdalenian and put together the list of artefact needed for the production. 

Illustrator Marina Lezcano finished an illustration to accompany the scenario. Aided by a palaeo-biologist, she portrayed the opening scene of the film. 

May 2026

I am on the road again since late April. From April 30th until May 3rd, I attended the KIVA festival in Italy. This event brings together indigenous people from all over the world and centers around a ritual that expresses the connection to Mother Earth. I went here to find inspiration for my next film. From May 8th until May 10th, I will attend a seminar by the Inuti shaman Angaangaq in Austra. After we got to know each other he has given public support for the project. Afterwards, I stayed in the Dordogne and visited Cougnac and Rouffignac cave. and working on the scenario, as well as the Bourgogne where I visited Arcy sur Cure.

March 2026

The first version of the scenario is finished and it has been sent around to the network of participating experts. So far, responses are very positive and I am getting interesting suggestions for improvement. I am also starting to get in touch with people from indigenous communities, who are also responding positively to the project. Among others, I have spoken with Phil Lane jr., Heriditary Chief of the Sioux.

Co-producer Merel van Kuijen joined the team and helps writing the scenario and setting up production plans.

January 2026

I have recently returned to my home town of Utrecht (The Netherlands), where I will be working on the script for the next two months. In March, the first version of the script will be shared among the scientific participants of the project (i.e. museums and individual researchers). I'm also working on more video essays for the YouTube channel and finishing the blogs about the Grand Tour Préhistorique. I'm subsisting with odd jobs. If you're in the area and/or interested in cooperating, shoot me a message through the Contact page. 

From January 18-20, I visited the MONREPOS institute in Neuwied, Germany, where I was welcomed by Olaf Jöris. I was able to study some of the Gönnersdorf plaquettes and was greatly inspired by what I saw.

December 2025

After a fantastic month in Les Eyzies, I visited the caves of Niaux and Gargas in the Pyrenees. Afterwards, I visited the wonderful caves of Cantabria in Northern Spain. Here, I had meetings with the Museum of Prehistory and Archaeology of Cantabria in Santander as well as the Altamira Museum. The folks there were very happy to cooperate. I also met up with Marina Lezcano (@mlezac) who wants to help out with the project by making concept art. On the way home, I had a meeting with the director of the National Museum of Prehistory in Les Eyzies. She was also very interested in supporting the project. 

The Bison's Legs is accepted into the HISTORY - International Film Festival Austria, which will take place in October 2026. 

November 2025

I spent most of this month in lovely Les Eyzies, where I met up with just about anyone in the world of prehistory that I could find. I visited the sites of Font de Gaume, Les Combarelles, Cap Blanc, Lascaux IV, Bernifal, Peche Merle and, after a chance meeting with the owner in a café, also the Grotte de Commarque. 

On November 27-28, I presented my philosophical approach to Stone Age filmmaking on the MetArh conference in Zagreb (Croatia). The paper is titled "An epistemology for prehistoric filmmaking" and you can read it here.

Summary of earlier progress

October 2025: Meetings with the National Museum of Slovenia, the Archaeological Museum of South Tyrol, experimental archaeologist Markus Klek (@markusklek) and Laurens Thaler (@prehistoric.peaks).

September 2025: Start of the Grand Tour Préhistorique. Meetings with Paläon museum in Schöningen, the State Museum of Prehistory in Halle, the Museum of Natural History in Vienna and the Moravian Museum in Brno.

Summer 2025: finished my Master's in Applied Ethics at UU, wrote my thesis on the ethics of hunting. 

Winter 2024/2025: The Bison's Legs is presented in the Hunebedcentrum (the Netherlands), in the Prehistory Museum of Blaubeuren (Germany), at Staatsbosbeheer and at the Maashorst Municipality (where primary shooting took place). 

October 2024: premiere of The Bison's Legs in the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (Leiden, Netherlands). 

May 2024: primary shooting days taking place in The Netherlands and Belgium.