On the way to Borislav

Wednesday afternoon we had decided to go to Borislav, the town where Aharon Weiss’ story took place. We wanted to check out the houses where his family and their neighbor’s family Yulia used to live, talk to the current residents and make sure they would be home when we come back with Aharon on July [...]

Lviv by storm

A few days ago, we had to meet people in the city, so I checked the weather channel online before going out of the house. Living in DC for two years does that to you. It said chances of rain. I thought ok, I’d take an umbrella.
Here are some pictures of what really happened. Four [...]

Florian

It has been a while since I posted anything, but I guess filming all day long and keeping a blog don’t really go well together. To keep things consistent, I will continue were I had left off.
Sunday morning, just back from Kyiv, we embarked on a journey to try and find Florian, one of [...]

Kyiv for a day – Chemistry of Tolerance

On the last post I had mentioned we would be going back to Kyiv to film the instructors’ meeting from the Chemistry of Tolerance course. The journey was exhausting but very interesting. We left Lviv at 5 am (it’s becoming a habit) and got to Kyiv at around noon. We met with Michelle, Emine and [...]

Lviv

I had heard a lot about the city. Olia really loves it and had told me many stories about her home town. I also saw the reaction of Ukrainian people in the US when I told them I would be going to Lviv. There was a lot of proud in their eyes and a little [...]

Poem to Land of Dilemmas

Our video installation was exhibited this year as part of Artomatic (See previous post).
We would like to thank the wonderful people at Artomatic who worked day and night (literally) in order to make this great month long event happen.  We particularly thank Jim Tretick and Carl Cordell for all of their help and support!  Also, [...]

Kyiv Day III

Here starts the paradox. 30 minutes away from the huge buildings, heavy traffic, big memorials and fancy boats, I ended up playing with baby rabbits and counting chicken! We went to the village of Kodaki to pick up Olia’s children who had stayed with a friend in the country side. The village was a [...]

Kyiv – Day II

So we did go out into the city and I did take lots and lots of pictures. I am also slowly beginning to discover that Ukraine is the country of paradoxes.
We spent Tuesday morning taking care of logistics: cell phone, internet connection (where this post is coming from!), train tickets, converting money from dollars [...]

Kyiv

Tuesday June 17th.  Second day in Kyiv.  The trip went well although we had no less than 6 large suitcases, a light kit, a tripod, two video cameras, one digital SLR (photo camera), two laptops, two carry-ons and two kids aged six and four.  Although the flight was long, it went relatively well.  We had [...]