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We were invited by On & For Production and Distribution to produce a creative report on the new Dummies workshop series. As artist and curator, peers and dummies before anything else, we were both present when it was launched in 2019, in Brussels, with a roundtable on artists' moving image (AMI) distribution that focused particularly on the Belgian context. One year later, in 2020, we participated in a virtual Dummies workshop on AMI production. When signing up for these workshops, one is asked to submit two questions that will be addressed to the panel of experts. The accumulation of these questions, of this matter, has become our focal point for this report. While a good number of the questions posed by the Dummies workshop participants were discussed and debated during the public moments, some of them were left suspended and have remained present ever since. We invite you to ponder the questions, both lost and found, in our text and image contribution to this publication.

"On the journey of producing films, we - artists and filmmakers - do not travel alone. To strive for fair pay for artistic labor, we need to involve ourselves in building and maintaining fair practices. And the producer, our travelling companion, extends a welcoming hand."

Recently a colleague asked for permission to sleep in the next day and consequently show up late for work. After carefully considering her request, I realised I couldn’t find a good reason to not accommodate her appeal. After all, we all need sleep.

A crack. ‘A line on the surface of something along which it has split without breaking apart’, says the dictionary. ‘Something you can sneak through’, says Mike Sperlinger.

In the early days of cinema, Dziga Vertov and Alexandr Medvedkin embarked on the Agit-train which was equipped with on-board editing studios and a movie theatre. Riding in the early twenties through the remote lands of Russia, they filmed, edited and showed their films to people in the villages they passed. They wanted to democratise the accessibility of cinema with the adage: “If the people cannot come to the cinema, the cinema will come to the people.”