Ransom, you're so talented as a filmmaker. You should make the movie of your books yourself, that would just be amazing. Also, Land of Sleep should be the name of your next book.

This was really pensive and captivating. I don't have such a physical concept of home since my childhood and teenagehood were full of moving and relocating, but each place that I've lived is uniquely special to me, and increasingly more so as I grow older. Thanks for the beautiful video.

Your storytelling is mesmerizing!

You just inspired me. Thanks.

as I sit hear aged 29 in London, watching this video a girl I'm falling in love with is asleep in the next room, quietly I sip my orange juice take the occasional drag from my morning spliff. You have overwhelmed me with a sense of calm and beauty, I don't normally leave comments but I just wanted to say thank you. You have a gift and I am a fan. Thanks

I can't tell you how happy I was to see your name in the subscription feed. Your work is spectacular and I look forward to the next one.

You could say the land molded you - and every now and then you need to go back to look at the rows of molds of past selfes. It grounds you, it anchors you to reality. Yes. My life, my mind, my memories were real.

I've been waiting forever for you to make a video. so beautiful.

This is lovely! You are a very rare young man indeed! Sooooo much talent!

Amazing, I have no words

Thank you so much for putting this into words for me.

More than anything I've wanted in quite a while, I want to listen to your recording of an audiobook. Whether it's a book you've written or another one, I want to listen to your voice reading stories to me. The pacing of your words, your inflections, every little detail is so beyond perfect; I want to listen to it forever.

I'm so happy i found this channel because everything that comes out of it is amazing and it's like he had all of the words in the world and somehow chose the exact ones that describe what he feels and that is such an amazing talent.

I love everything about this. perfection. it hit me especially hard because I moved around a lot growing up and don't really have anywhere like this to go back to. today I emptied a storage unit full of things from my childhood home, and it felt like I was giving away little pieces of my past that somehow amount to a history when put together. My dad's parents still live in his childhood home though, and I love going back and getting a real feel of what things were like for him when he was young. it's such a beautiful thing to have, I envy you greatly.

I just stumbled upon this on my dead brother's birthday. The attachment to my family home grew exponentially after that. I really wish I could go visit that time capsule right now. I found this video to be very touching.

So, so beautiful. The visual is a poem in and of itself. But the words are tremendously beautiful, as well. I cannot wait for your new book. You have a way of writing, that is not unlike F. Scott Fitzgerald, in your eloquent and simple way of describing difficult thoughts. Love from a great fan!

This is so beautiful. Your videos contain more humanity that 95% of KZfaq combined

Amazing... Absolutely beautiful. I really do love videos like this. I hope to see more.

This is gorgeous, Ransom.

It's a funny thing to go back and see where it all started. Things so important seem trivial as time brings into focus what should have always been the important, our families. During your look back I remembered my childhood, the joys, and the loss of times I miss, maybe I just the days when it was OK to play and act silly.Nicely done film, Ransom.

This was beautiful! You inspire me, through your writing, videos, and photography. I hope to travel the world one day to photograph abandoned/forgotten places and show the beauty and story that hide behind them. I'd also like to get into videos. Thank you for sharing your talent and life with us.

My family has planted roots in Venice, FL. I have been returning there for the past 27 years. Unfortunately, life being what it is, I have been unable to visit for the most recent past 5, and I miss the slow quiet of the place. Thank you for sharing this video. I got out my bags of sharks teeth and shells just so I could smell the sand. It's not the same. Time, like the crashing waves, erodes bits of memories from the beaches of our minds, no matter how we try to trap it.

Wonderful film. It's true you can never go back, but the great big world out there will never dilute the essence within you of your true home.

Beautiful. Such a poetic voice, i could listen to it all day

Funny, I know this feeling so well. Have two places like this...

This video is gorgeous! I've lived in Englewood Florida my whole life and you are right to the point. A place that doesn't change. I have to say I don't like living here anymore though. I've had enough of it. Still you're amazing and I enjoyed this so much!

Yes, Amazing, I almost have no words, also, except please never stop making these beautiful films. The world needs you.

I love your mini-documentaries, such one-of-a-kind masterpieces! I'll revel in every one you make, but I'll always be extremely glad for a new one. :)

I miss seeing new videos from you and watch these over and over again all the time! Please make more. They are amazing and inspiring!

I have lived in Englewood, FL for 30 years. I see my own neighborhood in this video. I loved it! Beautiful photography. Wonderfully produced. Really captures the charm of our town.

You've inspired me. I'm trying to begin film making with poetic, yet simple narration and this is the epitome of how I would like to be. Thank you.

Beautiful. I'm really glad I stumbled upon this. Thanks for sharing.

Your videos and your books are such an inspiration to me. I haven't watched some of these videos but for months, but coming back to them makes me remember why I love your work so much.

I am obsessed with your narrating, beautiful. I love our little sleepy town.

This is literally one of the most amazing videos on all of KZfaq. You have a gift. This is incredible.

Englewood! I love that sleepy little town. So peaceful and quiet. Some good people live there. Also, I'm constantly amazed by your eye for images and framing, and of course by your words.

man, i wonder what this guy is doing nowadays... this is incredible. i moved around a lot as a kid, i wish i had been given the chance to lay down sound roots instead of being ripped away from everything i had come to know. it was constant, every few years. my dad served the country, and let me tell you... america sucks everything out of you until your soul is empty.

This was *very* well done.

I can't get over how good this video is. Love all the short documentaries you do.

A wonderful piece Ransom proving that you can go home again. I admire all your multifaceted talents ... You are a great story teller.... thank you

This was absolutely captivating, just so utterly untouchable. After reading Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children and watching this, I have determined that you truly have an incredible gift with the art of your words and your creative and masterly filming. As a writer myself, you are my inspiration. Keep up the good work!

You seriously make some of my all time favorite videos on this site. And I say that as someone who has literally watched tens of thousands of videos over the past seven years. So glad to see you active on this channel again. Hope you keep it up!

Thank you for making this video :) I've just come back home after my first term at university and this video made complete sense of everything. I hope you make more amazing videos!

Glad to have you back, sir.

This is one of my favourite videos on KZfaq. It combines poetry, cinematography and music to give me a really pleasant feeling. I often find myself coming back and watching @ransriggs's videos.

I found this short film very compelling, I love the way you use words, I found it awe-inspiring.

Down here in Fort Missery I mean Myers 1 hour south of there, I can relate to this and I ONLY lived here for 8 years. It is the same thing everyday

I loved this video. I am overjoyed that you have been making new videos lately. Watching you're work is like stepping into a world that's not physical but made of thoughts and feelings. Great job.

Again, you capture a moment, and an idea with grace. Making it so personal and open that all can relate. Thank you, sir. Thank you.

Beautiful, I have been searching for what I have been feeling since I have been at the formative home of my childhood, and you sir have helped me identify those feelings, so thank you.

Such a beautiful video. Thank you for sharing your past!

Makes me want to visit Florida someday. I am your fan, Mr Riggs. And you have a warm, relaxing voice. I could listen to it forever. I hope to meet you someday. I'll have all of 3 books signed. 😍

I wish KZfaq still had this style of content. Thankful for this video

If you'd ever make a movie in the same visually and narratively style, I'd watch it. It's beautiful and mesmerizing at the same time..

Glad to see your posting videos again. You are the first channel I ever subscribed too. Awesome video. I hope there will be more in the not too distant future.

Beautiful short film. Made me proud to be a floridian that much more.

Gorgeous video. The idea of the never-waking town reminded me of where I have lived all my life.

I have been waiting for a new video for years and this was absolutely breathtaking.

Beautiful short film, beautiful narration. Wonderful job and I love your books.

Ransom, that was so good!

This is beautiful and EXACTLY how I feel about my home, which is also in a tiny town. Since I'm sixteen, all of my friends talk endlessly about wanting to live in big cities far away. I always thought that I was the only one who felt like you do.

Wow. What a beautiful film. Thank you. Ive just started reading miss peregrines home 1 and Im so hooked. Now Im also hooked by your youtube channel

textbook shots, classic, the must-learn scenes.

be it words you string together to stories or the pictures you collect and hare with us or the films you make, your art is hauntingly beautiful; fantastic and yet so very personal. you are an extraordinary artist, and one i truly look up to. please, keep enchanting all of us with your thoughts.

Damn you are such a great filmmaker. The shots, the music, the narration, and the stories. It's so great

your videos are just pure philosophical gems

Wow that was gorgeous.

So awesome to see you back and making videos! More please!! More!!! :)

This is extremely touching. So glad I found your channel & look forward to seeing more. You are very talented. Thank you for making these videos! I'm certainly going to pass this on to others! :)

This video was simply amazing! Beautifully shot with amazing narration and a fantastic story. I would love to see more.

Absolutely fantastic and stunning video!

I absolutely love this! Brilliant!

This was amazing. Thank you.

Another beautifully shot video, you are a man of pure talent.

This is so beautiful and both the video and your voice are so incredibly soothing. I could listen to you forever ^^

I love watching your videos. I'm looking forward to the next one and Hollow City!

So good! I'm so glad you're making videos again! Thanks for making me take a moment to think :)

Wow! Anyone who has ever called Englewood home has to see this. Bravo!!!

You make the most lovely videos.... thank you

You gave me inspiration when I desperately needed it to continue the story I am writing, you gave me the hammer that broke the ice that stood in my way of continuing....thank you Riggs. :)

So earlier today I was stumbled upon your John Green videos and was fascinated with them, so I watched a few. I looked at your channel name and thought it looked familiar for some reason. It wasn't til a few minutes later that I realized who you were and I almost cried. I have only ever lived in Florida and this video means a lot to me. Your book is incredibly beautiful.

I live in the old homestead in Michigan I grew up in. After living in mega cities I am mesmerized also by the place I live. The quiet, how things that were memories are still real. More devastated when for example a magical childhood tree was stolen and cut down. How her new shoots came back to defy the world. have to leave the house soon as her bones slowly rot, my body does also and we can not care for each other any more.

Welcome back!

Wonderful, welcome back.

Beautiful and moving, image and language are so purely matched. Enthralling.

These videos are just so beautiful and inspiring! I love how original and unique you are, something rather rare to find these days! I do hope you visit West Virginia sometime, in the fall it's absolutely beautiful and all the trees are different colors!

Every single shot in this was absolutely beautiful. I'm a photography student and I'd be happy to get even one shot as good as the many amazing ones in this.

This made me happy thank you for your awesome work

Meditative and beautiful. Thank you.

Beautiful !

Seeing how much talent you have just made me want to read your book more! Thank you for the video :)

That was so beautiful, and so true.

This sounds like a loop. I thoroughly enjoy your work.

such a great, professional, sophisticated work of art. so breathtaking and engadging

your work both on this channel and with the miss peregrine series is so amazing, i honestly rank you one of the best artists i've ever had the pleasure of coming across :] i hope you have time in the future to make more videos like this, but if not, i definitely look forward to all your future books/the movie

The music you've chosen was simply amazing! Very well done!

beautiful work :)

It's funny how someone from a small town in Washington state can feel the same emotions about coming home as you do in the opposite corner of the country. We are all more similar than we realize. Such a beautiful video.

Spot on Ransom. Your words paint stories like an artists pallet. Bravo.

Super relatable. I loved the music and visuals too. Your journey back home reminds me of visiting my grandparent's house and exploring it top to bottom. Funny enough, they live in Calipatria CA- about 15 minutes from the Salton Sea!