I never meant to work on a documentary, but in 2006 I accidentally started to. My collaborator and subject was a very good friend of mine, Ho Keen Fi – an illegal immigrant from Singapore who came to America, not in pursuit of the stereotypical honest work for honest pay (though he is a hard worker and it’s a quality I admire) nor the potential of social advancement, but instead to pursue a kind of creative and personal freedom we Americans have forgotten about (that of outlaws and rebels).

Between Fi, myself and filmmaker Jonathan Schwarz, we form a somewhat unholy “trinity” (Fi’s word, not mine), that has captured over a hundred hours of footage and have been hustling to cut it into what I think will be a pretty fascinating view into a person and a world that are alien to most Americans.

Here’s the trailer: