The Chromologist The Chromologist: Jack Harries
Apr 22, 2025
Jack Harries, documentary filmmaker and environmentalist known for JacksGap and climate films, talks about leaving London for a 200-year-old Cornish mill and how rural life calmed him. He traces viral YouTube beginnings, a Greenland trip that sparked climate storytelling, activism highs and disillusionment, and founding Earthrise to communicate climate issues through film and design.
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Childhood Home Shaped His Sense Of Home
- Jack grew up in a double-fronted Victorian that used to be a schoolhouse and his mother curated a minimalist white canvas with quirky, colourful bathrooms.
- Those small domestic rituals (glass of water by the bed, bathroom curios) shaped how he expresses love and designs home spaces.
YouTube Gap Year Turned Into A Career
- At 18 Jack launched a YouTube channel Jack's Gap with his twin and the gap year project unexpectedly exploded to a million subscribers.
- They quit university, set up a production company and moved from bedroom videos to funded travel films.
Rickshaw Across India Sparked Deeper Curiosity
- Jack and Finn drove across India in a rickshaw raising about £100,000 for Teenage Cancer Trust while making travel reportage.
- That trip broadened Jack's worldview and seeded a lasting interest in storytelling about other cultures.