Good evening everyone, my name is Leonard Atari and you are listening to the DVD commentary

track for my 2021 documentary film DNK as we listen here to the end of the opening credit

music. The first question I'm always asked when the movie screens at festivals is of course

how did you come to choose this topic and it's very simple really. The droidich scares

me. That's as honest a thing as I can say after all the stories I've heard as a filmmaker

over 20 years about strange happenings and events that people have told me about traveling

all over and even witnessing some disturbing things. It's none of that that scares me but

the droidich does. It's the droidich I think about whenever I have to walk across an empty

parking lot to my car late at night or whenever I get just a little far out on the nature trail

near my house in civil county New York and the light begins to fade. It took almost a

year of off and on efforts to get everyone in this film to agree to go on camera so there

was research that never seemed to end and then finally in November of 2019 things finally

fell into place. We see here the first scene I wanted to open the film with my drive to

see this man Donald Cacoshka because it was the opportunity to open it with just a little

levity there's an absurdist element to this for me. I'd been warned by the attorney for

try to pack the pictures that Cacoshka was likely to pull a reversal on us he was apparently

an unpleasant man before the Saturday Ministry incident and made him even colder but of course

I had to try since he was one of only four survivors of that day easily the oldest.

No matter his attitude we had to try and I wanted to show just how far we had to drive

into South Jersey to get to him and this of course is all real I told my camera person

Trish will come this to just follow me up onto the porch here and capture everything and

when Donald Cacoshka opened the door we have this drama here. We agreed to every part

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