Sasha and I were working on one of my screenplays at the time, and we decided that participating in the anti-war protests in DC during the last weekend of September 2005 might be relevant to our project. A group of friends joined us in what we thought would be a nice long weekend vacation.

We wanted to experience the events from the periphery, maintaining a somewhat detached objectivity. By the end of the actions, two members of the group were jailed, Sasha being one of them.
 
We recorded our experiences on personal camcorders, capturing scenes that included, what looked like undercover agents, dressed as demonstrators attempting to incite a riot. “Tourists in DC” was constructed entirely of these home video recordings. It documents our personal journey, from a somewhat playful and irreverent detachment to finding ourselves at the center of the action.