VOICE OF THE MOON (UK 1990) Recorded in Afghanistan in the late 80's, with some Mujaheddin rebels (and also the late war journalist Carlos Mavroleon, who worked as producer), the film follows the peoples' daily attempts to survive in a country being torn to pieces by the Russian invasion. During the shooting, Richard also encountered the Taliban. Originally made for UNICEF, the sound design is a mixture of Sufi poem and the incandescent music of Simon Boswell. 

THE WHITE DARKNESS (UK 2001) Richard was commissioned by the BBC to film a Haitian segment for their documentary series Last of the Medicine Men, focusing on Voodoo practices. Wandering around the countryside and recording their observations, the crew witnessed at first hand that Voodoo, usually coined as re-animating the dead, is mostly about interacting with and being possessed by other world spirits, a tradition which has lived through the occupation and missionary eras and has just recently been acknowledged as a certified religion amongst others.