TV and Film
Kansas Never Plays Itself (feature-length video essay, 2025)
The Game Camera (cowritten by Kristen Bush & Rolf Potts, 2025)
Hatteberg’s People e1101 (PBS): Global/rural creative couple (2024)
“Doing it: Vagabonding” (Billions S7:E11: “Axe Global” 2023)
Fly Brother e204 (PBS): Kansas, America’s Heartland (2022)
“Rolf shows us how” (Billions S6:E4: “Burn Rate” 2022)
Vagabonding by Rolf Potts as a puzzle on Wheel of Fortune (2021)
“Banana Pancakes” outtake from Gringo Trails (2013)
“Staged authenticity” outtake from Gringo Trails (2013)
Travel dispatches
19 London Clichés in Less Than Four Hours
Exploring the Laws of Physics in New Zealand
Around the World With No Luggage: An Introduction
Bangkok in Three Acts
Hanging With the Animal Paparazzi in South Africa
The African-Bush Elephant-Poop Cold Remedy
In Fez: Walk Until the Day Becomes Interesting
Tapas for Ignoramuses: Madrid in 9 Dishes and 7 Drinks
The Wrong Town in Morocco
Thailand to Malaysia: Scenes From a Train
An Egyptian Straight-Razor Shave (In 21 Easy Steps)
Lectures
Authors@Google (August 2007)
The DO Lectures (September 2009)
UPenn’s “Mind of Winter” George Saunders reading (January 2012)
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