A film does not earn because it is good. It earns because it can be found. Vol 004 separates the part you control from the part you do not.
Distribution is a choice a filmmaker makes. Where the film lives, who can reach it, whether it leaves a record at all. Monetization is what happens after, and most of it is out of your hands. The two get confused constantly, and the confusion is what costs filmmakers their next film. A festival selection. A credit on record. A search result that returns the film instead of nothing. That is the record, and it is the difference between a film that keeps opening doors and a link that died the week the premiere ended. Vol 004 sits with that distinction and what it asks of a filmmaker on the day the edit locks.
Where films and filmmakers live on.