JSYK: Why did you choose to document this difficult period in your life?

Andrew McMahon: There are a couple of reasons, actually. The first being that I had been documenting the early stages of the Jack’s Mannequin project for about six months prior to finding out I was sick. Over the course of those six months, I had become so inclined towards filming every aspect of my life that when I got ill, it just seemed like the natural next step. The other reason was a little more complicated and still a little tough to wrap my head around. I think, in large part due to a lack of physical energy, it became difficult to write songs and journal and pursue art as a form of refuge from the disease. In turn, the camera became the place where I could confess the kinds of things that I had trouble discussing at the time.