Because I virtually never slept long enough to see a proper dream. Our film, “Katya, Vitya, Dima,” premiered in Istanbul and was shown at the Listapad Festival in Minsk. It’s now going to be included in an online festival organized by Novaya Gazeta, one of Russia’s most prominent independent newspapers. Alexey also worked as oneContinue reading “2012 was a dreamless kind of year”
Monthly Archives: December 2012
It’s Christmas at Ground Zero
I miss having a proper home on Christmas. Although then again, I’m lucky to have what I have. It’s not that the mantra, “Some people have it way worse” works. It doesn’t. It’s just that life is unpredictable enough as it is – and in Russia, the membrane of delusion that’s supposed to separate youContinue reading “It’s Christmas at Ground Zero”
Check out Best of Russia 2012
I should just send a link to this annual photography contest every single time someone asks me, “So why live and work in Russia?” (And I’m not even a photographer) Here’s my top five from among this year’s winners, incidentally: “Forest” by Sergei Kosolapov, one of the winners in the Nature category. This was takenContinue reading “Check out Best of Russia 2012”
When we’re good, we’re good
He and his colleagues just won another prize for the “Winter Go Away!” documentary.
Happy Lev
Is here to distill the gloom and doom for a sec.
Natalia A. 